TO ASSESS THE IMPORTANCE OF FORENSIC INFORMATION
The article on the basis of legal and historical analysis provides the scientific principles and practical recommendations for building modern methods of evaluation of information from the point of view of its evidentiary significance. The concept, nature, goals, stages of this activity, their content and meaning are defined. The authors conclude that the internal belief should be considered as the beginning, principle, method of evaluation of evidence and as a result of such evaluation, and the evaluation - as a legal one. The subjects of proving the exercise of mental activity, take a logical reasoning associated with the construction and checking of versions, to unify disparate forensic information into information with the property proof. The evidence, in turn, is analyzed in terms of their sufficiency for the adoption of procedural decisions in the criminal case. In addition, the article analyzes the properties of reliability and sufficiency of forensic information. The role, place and correlation of the concepts of accumulation and exclusion in the proof process are determined.