After the Wohlleben defense had challenged all judges for alleged bias yesterday, Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s defense counsel Heer today read out his client\u2019s challenge against the presiding judge. This challenge too is based largely on the deadline for further motions, seen against the background of the not very speedy way the trial was conducted in recent months.<\/p>\n
The rest of the trial day consisted mostly of one break after another \u2013 30 minutes for \u201cinternal consultations\u201d of the defense teams, 25 minutes for the court to draft a decision denying a 20 minute break, and so on.<\/p>\n
What remains: to gain time for all challenges to be considered, the court canceled the trial days on 14 to 16 March and 21\/22 March 2017, the trial will continue on 23 March 2017.<\/p>\n
It is obvious that the Wohlleben and Zsch\u00e4pe defenses are not as much surprised by the deadline, but rather trying to hide the fact that they don\u2019t have any further motions or ideas. It has been clear since at least December that the court\u2019s program of evidence would be finalized after the expert opinion of Prof. Sa\u00df. Since then, neither the Zsch\u00e4pe nor the Wohlleben defense have done anything sensible. The claimed opinion being prepared by another expert is a much ado about nothing, the Wohlleben defense mostly brought propaganda motions claiming that Hitler\u2019s deputy Hess was murdered or on the \u201cdeath of the Volk\u201d. Today, this desperate strategy culminated in a motion on the alleged presence of FBI agents at the crime scene in Heilbronn. Two years ago, this motion might have been an interesting attempt to deal in conspiracy theories, but after Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s statement that B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos had confessed this crime to her, it is simply totally pointless.<\/p>\n
It is therefore easy to see why the court is trying to get to the end of the taking of evidence. Of course, the way the court went about achieving this goal \u2013 first rejecting several motions, some of which had been brought months ago, with rather far-fetched reasoning, then setting a one-week deadline for further motions \u2013 seems much too forceful. The questions also arises why, after several months of rather sluggish proceedings, the court is now trying to up the speed so much. One possible reason is that the parliamentary inquiry commission has finished the taking of evidence this week \u2013 maybe the court was waiting to see whether something relevant came up in Berlin before coming to a judgment in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Challenge for alleged bias by the Zsch\u00e4pe defense, and: court cancels trial days, trial to continue on 23 March 2017 After the Wohlleben defense had challenged all judges for alleged bias yesterday, Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s defense counsel Heer today read out his client\u2019s challenge against the presiding judge. This challenge too is based largely on the deadline […]<\/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-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}