Representation of Evidence at the Stage of Statement (Report) of Criminal Offense Submission

The article is devoted to the analysis of some problematic questions related to deficient legislative regulation of statement (report) of criminal offense and its evidential materials submission procedure. A comparison with the statement (report) of criminal offense submission at the stage of initiation of criminal proceedings under the Criminal procedural code of Ukraine 1960 has been conducted. The author cites examples of judicial practice, when objects and documents submitted during applying of statement (report) of criminal offense were admitted as evidence and used for confirm of the defendant’s guilt. The author gives his own vision of procedural form of evidence representation in criminal proceedings at the stage of statement (report) of criminal offense submission. Based on results of the poll of law enforcement officers the author proposed to draw up the fact and results of evidential materials representation by a protocol of objects (documents) acceptance. Corresponding changes and amendments to the Criminal procedural code of Ukraine have been proposed