Reasonable duration of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case at the end of the preliminary investigation

In criminal proceedings, providing access to the materials of a criminal case allows you to obtain the information necessary for participants to build their procedural behavior. Access to information is clothed in a special procedural form, which has two main options: during pre-trial proceedings and after its completion. Familiarization with the materials of the criminal case at the end of the preliminary investigation is of the most significant importance. But it is this stage that raises the most questions in the science of criminal procedure, accompanied by the greatest problems and difficulties in law enforcement.
The most acute discussions are conducted around the timing of familiarization. The legislator did not limit the participants in the period of familiarization and only in cases of obvious delay, such a period can be set by the court at the request of the investigator.
The absence of a specific duration of the term, the presence of an evaluative concept of "obvious delay", the significance of the familiarization itself and its re-sults for the purpose of criminal proceedings required in-depth scientific research, the results of which differ significantly due to the variety of approaches used and the methods chosen.
The purpose of this study is proposals for determining the optimal duration of the procedural period for familiarization with the materials of a criminal case at the end of the preliminary investigation, obtained on the basis of an analysis of the prescriptions of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation and the practice of their application, using methods of mathematical legal linguistics.
Research objectives: theoretical analysis of the period of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case at the end of pre-trial proceedings; generalization of theoretical and practical problems in the field of determining the duration of the procedural term; hypothesizing the possibility of using methods of mathematical legal linguistics to solve the problem of determining the duration of the term; actual application of the method of legal experiment to calculate the duration of the familiarization period; evaluation of the results obtained mathematical results from the point of view of the appointment of criminal proceedings.
Research methods: dialectical, mathematical, linguistic, analytical, modeling, hypothetical.
Results: the result of the study was the author's development of determining the optimal duration of the period of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case at the end of the pre-trial proceedings.

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