The reliability property as a criterion for evaluating electronic evidence in modern criminal proceedings

Modern criminal proceedings, inevitably faced with the process of digitalization, have put on the agenda the question of determining the legal nature of electronic evidence. The results of its decision are of fundamental importance for the practice of investigating criminal cases in all procedural planes. Within the framework of this article, the author of the study attempts to determine the applicability of the criterion of reliability of evidence in the evaluation of electronic evidence, offers a unique categorical definition of the criterion of reliability of electronic evidence for Russian criminal proceedings. At the same time, emphasis is placed on the specific features of determining the reliability of electronic evidence.