The assigned counsel of accused Zsch\u00e4pe today tried, but failed to have the handwritten notes of expert witness Prof. Sa\u00df introduced into the trial. The trial day began with some questions to the expert by the presiding judge. Counsel pronounced themselves surprised that Sa\u00df had not simply brought with him his notes \u2013 some 700 pages. Two weeks ago, after Sa\u00df had stated that he did not have his notes with him and the defense had answered that in that case they did not have any questions at the moment, the presiding judge had asked Sa\u00df some questions of his own and then asked him to come back to Munich this week \u2013 Heer, Stahl and Sturm had apparently believed that this included a statement that Sa\u00df was to bring his notes. Sa\u00df, however, had left them at home and stated that he had included all relevant observations of Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s behavior in the courtroom in his expert opinion \u2013 indeed, he had made reported on these observations in some detail last time as well as today.<\/p>\n
Assigned counsel seemed to be unable to confront Sa\u00df with potential gaps in his statements, leading to the impression that they simply had not noticed any such gaps. They thus showed themselves once more passive and focusing solely on formalities, bringing detailed motions asking for the court\u2019s support in providing details that are beside the point \u2013 instead of actively taking up the fight concerning the contents of the expert opinion. In a political trial held at a court of appeals, this type of defense is destined to fail just as much as the attempts by Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s new counsel to convince the court with make-believe stories.<\/p>\n
At the end of the trial day, Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s assigned counsel moved that the court instruct Sa\u00df to report on the contents of his work product. This motion will be rejected tomorrow morning and accordingly, the questioning of the expert witness may come to an end this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Further questions to Prof. Sa\u00df \u2013 defense tries, but fails to gain access to his notes The assigned counsel of accused Zsch\u00e4pe today tried, but failed to have the handwritten notes of expert witness Prof. Sa\u00df introduced into the trial. The trial day began with some questions to the expert by the presiding judge. Counsel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}