Today, the Odessa Court of Appeal continued consideration of the appeal filed by the defense of Sternenko and Demchuk.
The prosecutors came with a request to include “new materials” in the case, just as they did during the previous session. However, these prosecutors were unable to give the judges an answer as to why some of the “evidence” had signs of fabrication and did not explain why the first instance judge recorded one testimony of a witness who had not been questioned in court, while according to the protocol of the investigative experiment, the witness gave completely different testimony.
Another “novelty” from the prosecution is the statement that the rubber cartridges are… live ammunition, and therefore Sternenko should also be convicted under Part 1 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
As a result of today's hearing, the court denied the defense of Sternenko and Demchuk a request to change the preventive measure and scheduled the next hearings for May 20 and 21 at 2:30 p.m. and 10:00 a.m., respectively.
But that's not all: the Primorsky District Court of Odessa declared Sternenko's... contempt of court. All because another hearing was scheduled for today - in the case of Serhiy's self-defense. Sternenko could not appear in court on absolutely legal grounds, because he was at a hearing in the appellate instance. Nevertheless, the Primorsky Court, the same one that delivered the verdict in the case "Shcherbych vs. Sternenko", has its own "interpretation" of the law on this matter, understandable only to it.
