SEPARATE PROBLEMS ARISING WHEN RESOLVING THE ISSUE OF RECOVERY OF PROCEDURE COSTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CLOSING OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS BASED ON EXCELERATION OF A PERSON FROM CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Abstract

Due to the existing significant gaps in the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine (hereinafter referred to as the CPC of Ukraine) and, as a result, the lack of uniform approaches in court decisions, the Supreme Court and scientists once again faced the question of whether to charge a person who has been released from criminal liability in connection with the expiration of the statute of limitations, procedural costs, if so, which of them and how to decide the fate (distribution) of those procedural costs that are not subject to such collection. The research also aims to find out which of the costs incurred by the victim in this particular case should be compensated to him at the expense of the State Budget of Ukraine. The applied deductive reasoning and discursive thinking resulted in a scientific conclusion that it is not necessary to generalize all the procedural costs incurred by the victim from the standpoint of their unconditional compensation to him, because there are also procedural costs (for example, the funds spent by the victim on the representative, of course with the exception of the situation when there is a legal possibility of such representation on a free-of-charge basis for the victim), which should not be subject to such compensation under the conditions of a situation where a guilty verdict was not passed, and a person was released from criminal liability by a court decision due to the expiration of the statute of limitations . It is substantiated that, in turn, by a court decision under the terms of Part 2 of Article 122 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, the State Budget of Ukraine compensates (transfers to the state's account) the victim's expenses related to his participation in criminal proceedings.