The legality of evidence in criminal proceedings from the point of view of the practice of law enforcement authorities in the Slovak Republic in relation to the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic and the European Court of Human Rights

Abstract

The text of the article is divided into several parts. In the first part, it deals with practical experience with the procedure of the police and the prosecutor’s office in obtaining evidence in cases of drug crime and the use of this evidence in a criminal case against the offender. In the second part, I deal with the problem, if evidence obtained in one criminal case is used as evidence in another criminal case against another offender. In the next part, I assess the legality of the evidence obtained and used in this way. In the end, I evaluate the knowledge gained through practice and compare them with the current jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.