GELENIDZE v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 14 March 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 72916/10Manana GELENIDZE against Georgialodged on 5 November 2010STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Ms Manana Gelenidze, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1962. She is represented before the Court by Ms R. Gabodze, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.A.  The circumstances of the case3.  On 8 August 2006 the Tskaltubo District Court convicted the applicant in absentia of delivering an unlawful court decision in her capacity as judge, an offence under Article 336 § 1 of the Criminal Code of Georgia. She was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. The first-instance court concluded that she had miscalculated the prison term of a person who had been convicted of an offence, which had resulted in that person’s early release from prison. The reason …