HAYKUSH HAROYAN

PhD Candidate at the Chair of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics,

Faculty of Law, Yerevan State University,

Judicial assistant at the AntiCorruption Court of the Republic of Armenia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2025.7-9-127

Annotation.

The aim of the article is to analyze a number of issues related to the legal norms regulating the conditions for applying the plea bargaining procedure as a special trial procedure, as provided by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia.

The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that it identifies and examines the existing shortcomings and problematic aspects of the legal norms and mechanisms regulating the conditions for applying the plea bargaining procedure as a special trial procedure, as provided by part 2 of Article 458 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Armenia. The article also formulates relevant conclusions and proposals.

In this context, the article is relevant, as the conclusions and proposals made can serve as a theoretical source for further study of the “plea bargaining procedure” institution.

The article discusses issues such as the establishment of additional circumstances excluding the application of the plea bargaining procedure, in particular, determining exceptions for applying the special trial procedure to specific types of crimes, prohibiting the use of the plea bargaining procedure in new proceedings separated from the main criminal case, and other similar provisions.

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