"The Case" Kirovles ": History Syndrome

June 18, Judge Sergey Blinov, who considers the Kirovles case, refused Alexei Navalny and Peter Officer to call all defense witnesses

Alexey Navalny in the Leninsky court of the city of Kirov on June 17 again tried to prove to the prosecutors and judge Blinov that he did not steal the forest and was not even going

The decision of the judge Blinov is in its purest form violation of the 6th article of the European Convention on Human Rights. After all, it directly says: defense witnesses should be interrogated in the same conditions as the witnesses of the prosecution. The refusal to interrogate, in fact, closes access to fair trial. But he opens access to the European court on human rights, where the accused can now complain about violation of his rights.

Recall: the same thing was in the second process in the Khodorkovsky case. The accusation brings the judge a list of witnesses whom the prosecutors want to call, and this list is attached to the indictment and, accordingly, is accepted by the court without bills, without any clarifications and changes. When the “despicable defense” brings his list and explains to the judge for each person who and in connection with which she wants to interrogate, the judge refuses: “We will not provide this petition now.”

By and large, this is not only a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, this is a violation of Russian law: the judge does not have the right to refuse to satisfy such a request. In itself, such an attitude to the petitions of protection is the largest bias, indicating the lack of adversarial in the process. This is a clinical demonstration of the parties in the process in the process: a list of witnesses of the prosecution is accepted completely, wholesale. The list of witnesses of protection is rejected without explanation. (!)

Why is the judge Blinov do this? The answer is simple: to show who is the master in the house. The judge and the prosecutor at the same time, but the defense cannot be trusted, to promote it - too, although article 244 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation and says that the parties to the prosecution and protection enjoy equal rights to a statement of allotments and petitions at the hearing.

What is the judge afraid of, refusing to call all the witnesses of the defense? And he is afraid that the process will drag on.

Suppose. But the defendants - Navalny, officers are not in custody. What then is to be afraid of the tightening of the process?

This behavior of Judge Blinov testifies to his non-independence-apparently, some deadlines are dictated to him.

Judicial psychology is ingenuous. As an illustration, we take the process of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. June 20 there the judge stubbornly repeated: "We will consider the case!" It was not possible to collect the jury college, the judge postponed the hearing on July 17. We tell him that it is impossible to consider the case - two lawyers on vacation, and he: “No, we will still consider!” With lawyers, without lawyers - we will! It seems that he needs to urgently report on the beginning of the process.

The same thing in Kirov: the judge Blinov is in a hurry somewhere. I would only know - where?

Photo: RIA Novosti