Tactical and psychological aspects of judicial interrogation in criminal proceedings

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The object of the research, the individual results of which are presented in the proposed article, is judicial interrogation in criminal proceedings, and the subject is the tactical and psychological aspect of the court's participation in its conduct. The purpose of the article was to highlight some tactical and psychological features of judicial interrogation, in particular the role and participation of the judge himself in its conduct, the admissibility of his use of certain interrogation techniques. During the research, a comprehensive approach was used, which made it possible to consider the researched object in both a theoretical and a practical plane. Formal logic methods, such as analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, abstraction, analogy, were used when processing normative material, scientific sources, and formulated conclusions on the research topic. The article examines the essence and means of forensic analysis of testimony received during judicial interrogation. Its psychological atmosphere is characterized, the meaning and methods of establishing and maintaining psychological contact with the person questioned in court are shown. The reasons and means of overcoming the distortion of the circumstances related to the subject of interrogation by the interrogated are highlighted. As a result, it was concluded that the adversarial nature of the judicial process presupposes the primary activity of the opposing parties in the interrogation of individual participants in the criminal proceedings, and the tactical methods of judicial interrogation developed by criminology are primarily addressed to the prosecution. However, the ability to recognize the falsity of testimony or to expose the falsity of testimony is no less important for the judge, who is obliged to adequately evaluate and use the evidence when making a final decision in such a way that his conclusions regarding the information received from the interrogated persons are understandable to the person present at the court session who is not familiar with the jurisprudence to the public and contributed to establishing the truth in the case. Key words: forensic support of court proceedings, judicial interrogation.