This article presents a brief discussion of the problems arising in the course of law enforcement officers’ work when investigating criminal cases with the use of an abbreviated procedure of inquiry. A brief description of the procedure is given. We consider some assumptions of legal scholars concerning the scope of problems that could arise in the application of this legislative innovation. All these assumptions had been made before the new law came into force. Besides, a review of scholarly publications concerning specific allegedly problematic issues is presented. We present convincing evidence that such problems do not exist in practice. Our findings are supported by the results of a survey of practitioners who reported the causes of a more active investigation of criminal cases with the use of the abbreviated procedure of inquiry. We also show the general statistics on the application of this legislative innovation in the Nizhni Novgorod region.
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