CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LEGISLATION IN 2017

The article considers the problem of state criminal law procedure and the quality of insertion
of changes. The reason was the adoption in 2013 and 2014 annually 25 and 30 laws, respectively. The state of Criminal Procedure Law in 2015 and 2016 were subjected by the author to the analysis of сentral publications. This article is the analysis of the changes adopted in 2017, continues this tradition. During the past year 14 laws reforming the Code of Criminal Procedure were adopted, 4 decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized that the criminal procedure rules are partially inconsistent with the Constitution of the Russian Federation. During the entire period of its existence, the Code of Criminal Procedure has varied 222 laws and was corrected 27 the Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, and in general, 249 normative legal acts. The characteristic again of the changes is interesting: the way they are reasoned and consistent, if they improves the criminal procedure regulation, as well as the interests of citizens or agencies, if they do not produce any contradictions and gaps? It was noted that despite the trend towards stabilisation of the Criminal Procedural Law it remains highly unstable changing monthly 1.2 law. The promises of deputies to tighten the practice of amendment in the Code of Criminal Procedure were not fulfilled – no more than 1 time per year. The interests of agencies in lawmaking is dominated by almost 2 times above the interests of citizens. Inconsistencies, contradictions, omissions are continues to be. However, the legislator has chosen the right way for stabilization, although it is not consistent. Attention to the changes in criminal procedure legislation is lawful, but it must not be weakened.