A Search Warrant Submited Verbally and Legality of Evidence / Naredba za pretresanje na osnovu usmenog zahtjeva i zakonitost dokaza

Abstract

Criminal Procedure Code of Republika Srpska defines that a search of dwellings, other premises and persons can be permitted, with certain exceptions, only with a search warrant issued by the preliminary proceedings judge. A search warrant is issued under the conditions provided by the Code, at the request of the prosecutor or at the request of authorized officials obtained an approval by the prosecutor. A request for the issuance of a search warrant may be submitted in writing or verbally. If the request is submitted verbally, preliminary proceedings judge is obliged to record the communication appropriately, but the requesting official shall draft the warrant. Author of the paper deals with issues related to failure of the preliminary proceedings judge to record „all of the remaining communication“ after the verbally request for a search warrant was made, and judges influence to legality of evidence obtained on a basis of such a warrant. Observes all that trough the rules which are regulating the procedure, decisions of ordinary courts of law and the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, trying to find an answer to the question: is the essence of this institute presented by its form or its contents. Proper implementation of evaluation of evidence and the possibility to use the evidence in criminal procedure, human rights protection, compliance of the principle of legality, and, very often, the epilogue of criminal procedure depends from the answer to this question.