The current Criminal-Procedural Code of Ukraine in case of forensic-medical examinations of injuries requires to determining of their origin from the action of certain traumatic factors and that belongs to the direct responsibilities of forensic-medical examiner. Determining the circumstances of their formation, does not require any medical knowledge, and therefore does not belong to the competence of the expert. The examiner should not determine and is not obliged to determine the circumstances of injuries in case of falls from one’s own height, because the same injuries (identical morphology and localization) a person can get in different situations. Only the investigator and the court are able gather enough evidences for the conclusions about the circumstances of injuries in case of fall from his own height to the plane surface.
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