PROCEDURAL BASICS OF PRELIMINARY HEARING

Abstract

The article outlines the foundations of preliminary hearings (suspension of criminal proceedings, termination of the case, referral of the criminal case to the prosecutor for approval of the indictment, accusatory conclusion, or decision on the application of compulsory medical measures, consolidation or separation of criminal cases, exclusion of inadmissible evidence from the case), procedures, the judge's initiative and motions from the parties, the timeframes for conducting preliminary hearings, the goals and objectives, the main rights and duties of the participants in the process, as well as scholars' views on this issue.