Testimony Transcript

Advocate Chernousova to the defendant: Why did you not give such testimony during the preliminary investigation?

Answer: The thing is that everything I said during the investigation, the investigator did not record in the protocol; he said that it did not interest him. Only at the end of the investigation, at the very end, did he accept two motions to summon witnesses, but he rejected them. I believe that my rights were violated and they acted with the same methods that were used in the 50s. No one beat me, but the methods—and I never gave confessionary statements. I filed the statement because an illegal measure of restraint was applied to me, and a criminal case was initiated.

Judge to the defendant: You say that handwriting samples were taken from you illegally; in volume 1, pp. 96-98, there is a protocol for obtaining samples for handwriting analysis; were you indeed asked to write an essay on the topic: "My life in Moscow"?

Answer: Yes, I wrote such an essay in my own hand.

Judge to the defendant: As follows from the case materials, there was a lawyer; there was such a lawyer, and did you tell the truth in the presence of your lawyer?

Answer: The advocate was with me, but I refused his services and I did not always tell the truth in his presence. In the presence of advocate Chernousova, I spoke the truth.

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Representative of the state prosecution, Zaraev: If the defense has no other evidence, then I would ask the court to read out the case materials contained in two volumes. These are documents regarding the initiation of the criminal case, protocols of investigative actions, and characterizing data on the defendant's personality.

The court proceeds to the examination of the written materials of the case.

Volume 1 is being read out.

• Decision to initiate a criminal case;
• p. 3 - decision;
• p. 5 - decision;
• p. 1 - decision;
• p. ... communication;
• p. ... statement by Tumasyan;
• p. 5 - copy of the sentence dated January 14, 2000;
• p. 9 - specialist's conclusion;
• p. 1 - decision to obtain comparative handwriting samples from 2000;