The judge recognized the conclusion of Samkharauli's examination on Mikheil Saakashvili's health as admissible

In the case of postponement or release from the sentence, the judge recognized as admissible the expert opinion of the Samkharauli on the health of Mikheil Saakashvili prepared by order of the penitentiary service.

The defense side requested that the report of the Penitentiary Service not be included in the case, and also requested the exclusion of the authors of the report as witnesses.

We are talking about the report prepared by the Samkharauli expert on the instructions of the Penitentiary Service. According to the defense, the conclusion does not fit within the scope of the law, since Samkharauli's expertise prepared him in such a way that they never visited Mikheil Saakashvili. According to the lawyers, the agency prepared the report as a counterweight to Center Empathy and tried to invalidate the arguments that Georgian and foreign experts were talking about.

In addition, according to the defense, Samkharauli's examination was conducted against the requirements of the law, arbitrarily, in excess of official authority, since according to the resolution, the prosecutor and the investigator, as well as the defense, have the right to appoint a forensic medical examination based on a written request, and not the penitentiary service and or the medical staff included in this service. department.

According to judge Giorgi Arevadze, the legal requirements were not violated during the preparation of the document. As for the questioning of experts, Arevadze said that since we are talking about specific knowledge, the parties should be given the opportunity to present their opinions to the court.