Substantiation of Issues in the Procedural Document on the Appointment of a Multidisciplinary Forensic Examination Concerning Animal Poisoning
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32353/khrife.4.2024.04Keywords:
multidisciplinary forensic examination; poisoning; exogenous poisons; procedural document; forensic examination appointment; questions in investigator’s ruling or court decision.Abstract
The author intended to identify and substantiate questions addressed in the ruling (of the investigating judge, court) or the resolution (of the investigator, inquiring officer, prosecutor) on the appointment of a multidisciplinary forensic veterinary examination and examination of highly toxic substances when investigating animal poisoning. The dialectical method, methods of formal logic (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, analogy, formalization, abstraction, idealization) as well as special methods (comparison, modeling, system-structural, system-functional, comparative-legal, hypothesis building) have been applied to fulfill this goal. A range of issues based on the principles of formal logic, dialectics, system analysis, and modeling has been outlined and can be tentatively grouped into three groups: 1) identification sings and physiological features of a living animal (animal corpse); 2) identifying the poison and establishing ways and means of its entry into the animal’s body, the mechanism of poisoning action, determining the degree of the animal’s health impairment and the degree of loss of an animal’s value as a result of poisoning; 3) establishing a causal link between poisoning and health impairments (poisoning and death) of the animal, clarifying consequences of poisoning (specifically whether the animal was subjected to physical pain and suffering before death). The practical value of the research findings consists in that logically systematic and scientifically developed questions may be addressed by the subject of pre-trial investigation or the court in the procedural document on the appointment of a multidisciplinary forensic veterinary examination to obtain the most complete and detailed answers to them in forensic expert conclusions in the shortest possible time.
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