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Cancellation of the arrest warrant requested
As expected, the court and the public prosecutor's office do not comment on the current status of the proceedings.
The defense, on the other hand, does:
"In our opinion, a problem that runs through all cases is that the BKA has investigated totally one-sidedly," said lawyer FF to the dpa news agency.
Obvious investigations, for example to clarify the credibility of witnesses, had been omitted, he complained. "Possibly exculpatory things were not taken into account accordingly."
In order to demand an interim status from the criminal chamber, the defense has applied for the arrest warrant to be lifted. "The further advanced a taking of evidence is, the stricter the requirements are to be placed on the assumption of the urgent suspicion of a crime," said FF.
According to the course of the taking of evidence so far, the arrest warrant could no longer be valid.
Wird der fall Maddie McCann doch noch zum Thema in Braunschweig? Die Welt jedenfalls wartet.
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Actually I think the judges have allowed themselves to be harried into a corner by constant defence demands and thus rendered themselves incapable of performing their function as the process dictates they should.
Decidedly odd to agitate for cancellation of the arrest warrant from the beginning and at the interim period of the trial.
They've obviously decided that what was initially timetabled to be a relatively speedy trial is going to continue well into next year when CB's time is up on his rape conviction. Until which time having the arrest warrant withdrawn is meaningless because he will remain under arrest anyway.
The conundrum is that the judiciary have jumped the gun by arriving at far reaching conclusions long, long before all relevant information and witnesses have been heard.
My opinion