"If the judge shares Samkharauli's conclusion and allows it, Mikheil Saakashvili will be deprived of the right to a fair trial" | Khachapuridze

Mikheil Saakashvili's lawyer Shalva Khachapuridze responds to Rati Bregadze's special briefing and says that if the judge shared Samkharauli's conclusion and allowed it, then Mikheil Saakashvili will be deprived of the right to a fair trial.

 "It would be good for the Minister of Justice to include the article he was guided by when he made this statement. I doubt that these people have anything to do with jurisprudence. The Code of Criminal Procedure does not know such an article, nor the rule of conducting an examination. Second, on a living person when there is dispute, the penitentiary filed a motion to conduct an alternative examination, and the judge denied it.

That is, the motion was rejected once, and according to the Criminal Procedure Code, a motion that was filed once cannot be filed a second time. About 15 articles were violated from the statement made by the Minister of Justice today, the fact is one thing, this decision of theirs shows that the conclusion of the forensic medical and psychiatric expertise presented to the court by the Center "Empathy" is so solid and strong, they were afraid that the judge might make a decision against Saakashvili release or postponement of sentence and invented this something.

This is not justice, this is a fight without rules. I do not rule out that this will force us to abandon the Georgian court altogether and go directly to the Strasbourg court. If the judge accepted Samkharauli's conclusion, consider that Saakashvili's right to a fair trial was taken away," Khachapuridze says.