The article is devoted to certain provisions of the institution of witness immunity, concerning the limits of the scope of witness immunity and the list of persons who have such immunity. The material basis of the article was made up of research of scientists, legal scholars in the field of research of interest. Methods were used (description, analysis, synthesis, induction), private scientific methods of cognition of legal phenomena (the method of analysis of normative legal tests). The proposed research made it possible to identify gaps in the legislative regulation of the issue of granting persons with witness immunity.
criminal procedure, witness immunity, right to silence, concealment of crimes
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