Prospects for Improving General and Special Grounds for Exemption from Criminal Liability

The article considers possible ways of improving the institution of release from criminal liability, and special grounds in particular. The proposals based on the thesis about the ineffectiveness of the institution of exemption from criminal liability, as well as its inconsistency with the principle of the presumption of innocence, were found to be untenable. The author considers it necessary to include in the incentive notes to the articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which contain the condition of the person committing a crime for the first time, a restriction on their repeated use within the statute of limitations established in Art. 78 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. A theoretical model of such a restriction is proposed, as well as a corresponding explanation in the text of the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated June 27, 2013 No. 19 “On the application by the courts of legislation regulating the grounds and procedure for release from criminal liability”.