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THE DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE SEARCHED IN A SEARCH AND SEIZURE PROCEDURE
THE DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE SEARCHED IN A SEARCH AND SEIZURE PROCEDURE

Author(s): Bogdan Bodea
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Editura University Press, Universitatea de Medicina, Farmacie, Stiinte si Tehnologie “George Emil Palade” din Targu Mures
Keywords: search; seizure; destroying; evidence; self-incrimination.

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the act of destroying evidence searched in a search and seizure procedure, and weather or not such an act is incriminated or should be incriminated if committed by the author of the original crime. The problem was raised as the need to respect the defendant’s privilege against self-incrimination extends to the right not to provide evidence against oneself.Therefore, the article is set to establish the correlation between perpetrating such an act and exercising a procedural right, form a criminal law, procedural law and human rights point of view.

  • Issue Year: 98/2024
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 62-68
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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