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The article aims to trace the stages, processes and trends in the development of legislation in the field of criminal procedure science and forensics with regard to the regulatory framework regarding the conduct of interrogation of an accused as an action of the investigation in the period from the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878 to the adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code promulgated, State Gazette, issue 86 of 28.10.2005, in force from 29.04.2006 when conducting the preliminary phase of criminal proceedings. A comparative analysis of the regulation of the specified method of proof in the operation of each of the normative acts in force at the specific historical moment has been made. Attention has been paid to the development and change of the legislative will in view of the change in specific social relations, historical, socio-political, economic and social conditions in the operation of these normative acts. The importance of the topic stems from the general function of the means of proof to fulfill the main tasks of the criminal process - to reveal the crime, to expose the guilty party and to realize his criminal responsibility, which historically has not changed and remains unchanged, and from the characteristic features of the interrogation of an accused as a means of proof and a means of defense.
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methods of proof, investigative actions, interrogation, accused
