APPEAL DENIED
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[09:18 pm] 14 October, 2008
Judge Arshak Petrosian of the Kentron and Nork-Marash districts
general jurisdiction court denied the appeal of attorneys of former
Deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangirian that were filed against
the verdicts of investigator Vahagn Harutyunian and prosecutor
Koriun Piloian.
Let us remind that Gagik Jhangirian’s defendants Lusine Sahakian and
Yervand Varosyan are filing an appeal against the charge that was
pressed based on the first section of article 300 and later abolished
due to insufficient evidence. In other words, the defendants are
claiming that the charges pressed against Gagik Jhangirian based on
the first section of article 300 had to be abolished not because there
were no proofs of his participation, but that they had to at least
be based on the fact that there were no corpus delicti in what he did.
Judge Arshak Petrosian substantiated the verdict that he had reached by
the fact that the proofs stated during the preliminary investigation
of the case were enough to press a charge based on the first section
of article 300 of the RA Criminal Code, but they were not enough
for continuing the criminal persecution against Gagik Jhangirian and
sending the case to court. Thus, there are not enough grounds to make
Vahagn Harutyunian get rid of the verdict and reach a new one.
"It is clear that the judge has made an unlawful decision and in
essence has reprinted the objections made by Vahagn Harutyunian and
Koriun Piloian," told "A1+" Lusine Sahakyan regarding the verdict and
added that in reality the verdict was unlawful right from the start
because, according to her, the judge had convened another session
and violated the confidentiality while the case was in the process
of consultation. Besides that, his verdict is not well-reasoned.
Let us add that the attorneys are going to appeal to the Appeals Court.