On the Need for Extending Procedural Rights of a Person Involved in a Criminal Case That Concerns a Crime Accomplice

In the article, the author refers to the legal status of the person involved in the criminal case of the accomplice of the crime, expresses the point of view about the discrepancy between the scope of the procedural rights of such a person and his actual position in the criminal case, in connection with which he makes proposals to endow him with separate procedural rights of the accused. The necessity of prompt review of sentences decided in accordance with Chapter 40.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation is justified in cases when, based on the results of consideration of a criminal case against accomplices who committed a crime together with a person with whom a pre-trial cooperation agreement was concluded, the court established factual circumstances indicating the existence of grounds for qualifying the actions of these persons as a less serious crime.