CASE OF PIRTSKHALAVA AND TSAADZE v. GEORGIA

FIFTH SECTIONCASE OF PIRTSKHALAVA AND TSAADZE v. GEORGIA(Application no. 29714/18)  JUDGMENT Art 6 § 1 (criminal) • Fair hearing • Applicants’ criminal conviction not based to a decisive degree on witness statements from their initial co-accused, placed in same pre-trial detention cell, but on complex body of additional evidence • Appellate court’s reasoning concluding exclusion of statements would not result in acquittal not arbitrary or manifestly unreasonable • Criminal proceedings as a whole fair STRASBOURG23 March 2023  FINAL 25/09/2023 This judgment has become final under Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Pirtskhalava and Tsaadze v. Georgia,The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Georges Ravarani, President, Mārtiņš Mits, Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, Lado Chanturia, María Elósegui, M …