PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INTERESTS IN PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES AND THE DIGITALISATION OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

The development of modern technologies that penetrate all spheres of public life, including criminal proceedings, the digitalisation of criminal proceedings raises the issue of whether the technologies introduced and the changing interaction between participants in criminal proceedings are compatible with private and public interests realised in the course of criminal proceedings. The purpose of the article is to analyse the compliance of the process of implementation of modern digital technologies with private and public interests in criminal proceedings. Methods: comparative-legal, system analysis, synthesis, prognosis. The author concludes that from the perspective of private and public interests in criminal proceedings, a number of technologies introduced in criminal proceedings fully correspond to both, as they facilitate the possibility for participants in criminal proceedings to exercise their rights, increase their awareness, and they optimise and rationalise the process of criminal proceedings for the state.  However, a number of technologies are mainly in the public interest, as they optimise the activities of persons responsible for criminal proceedings, i.e., judges, investigators, prosecutors, and facilitate the work of authorised participants in the process. Artificial intelligence-based decision-making technologies in their current form do not serve either private or public interests, because they lack the emotional intelligence so necessary for resolving legal conflicts.