GORGODZE v. GEORGIA

FIFTH SECTIONDECISIONApplication no. 16446/09Gela GORGODZEagainst Georgia The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 10 July 2018 as a Committee composed of: Yonko Grozev, President, Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, Lado Chanturia, judges,and Milan Blaško, Deputy Section Registrar,Having regard to the above application lodged on 10 March 2009,Having deliberated, decides as follows:FACTS AND PROCEDUREThe applicant, Mr Gela Gorgodze, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1969 and lives in Georgia.The Georgian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr Beka Dzamashvili, of the Ministry of Justice.The applicant complained under Article 7 of the Convention concerning the domestic courts’ refusal to review his final sentence in view of the decriminalisation of an offence which constituted one of the grounds for his conviction.On 7 December 2017 the Court …