The Use of Electronic Documents Outside an Electronic Criminal Case: A Progressive Dead End

The article proposes to understand certain problematic aspects of the use of electronic documents in criminal proceedings. The mechanism for the implementation of electronic documents in criminal proceedings is presented by the authors as a set of actions determined not only by their regulation, but also by the regulation of the electronic criminal case. It is stated that the full use of electronic documents in criminal proceedings is impossible without an electronic criminal case. At the same time, the authors wonder about the readiness of the transition of Russian criminal proceedings to the electronic format of criminal proceedings. Particular emphasis is placed on improving criminal procedural activities in the field of application of digital technologies and the corresponding transformation of criminal procedural legislation.