The diversion of the hearing on the judge's conduct in the Zadorov trial came to cover one thing: the case is crumbling

It seems that a procedure has been established in the court: as soon as the judges turned the spotlight on the problems in collecting and analyzing the evidence, the prosecution was quick to respond - with insult.

Doubting Judge Cola's integrity and whining about the judges' comments only underscores the prosecution's helplessness in the face of the fact that it has no answers.

Mia Aidan

01/05/2022

Sunday, 01 May 2022, 14:58 Updated: 15:29

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In the video: Ilana Rada turns to the judge and asks him not to abandon her (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

There are judges in Nazareth, and one judge is now being brought to the attention of the media to look away, if only slightly, from the collapsing tower of cards of the State Attorney's Office in the Zadorov case.

From discussion to discussion the doubt arises as to more and more evidence.

Diverting the hearing to Judge Cola, questioning his integrity, whining about the judges' comments and insights in general, only underscores the helplessness of the prosecution in the face of the fact that it has no answers to poignant questions that arise in the hearings.

If the evidence in the case had not been so crisp and crumbling - it is doubtful we would have heard of it.

So for the sake of the short memory, it's worth returning the discussion to the legal issue, for which we have all come together.

The retrial has been going on for about six months - the judges Asher Kola, Daniel Tzarfati and Tamar Nissim Shai, have been conducting it from day one in a matter-of-fact and purposeful manner, and are nearing the end of the parties' hearing.

They are familiar with the case, and it is clear that they have studied well the questions that arise from it - as long as cash is available at the witness stand, they are asked to address the relevant questions on a point-by-point basis.

The judges do not get a smear of time.

They often ask questions themselves while questioning witnesses, and clarify unresolved points.

Do not envy the representatives of the State Attorney's Office, whose entire prestige rests on their shoulders, who time and time again encounter the demand to give answers, and it seems that they are quite surprised by the class.

Who does not.

The judges' first question marks revolved around the fact that parts of Zadorov's interrogations were not documented or recorded by police investigators, including an admission of an affair that climbed Tair's body, through her and wiped her with toilet paper - unparalleled important evidence - which had no recorded or documented memory , Except in memos written in retrospect and amended.

"Why did you not document this investigation?" Judge Cola asked investigator Sasha Strizewski, who wrote the memorandum on the matter in retrospect.

"Because in none of the interrogations was I the one running the recording. I did not know if there was a recording sequence from that day," he replied.

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The bag crumbles.

Zdorov (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

The judges rightly linger over the number of people who had access to the toilet in which Tair was found, but the paramedic, the head of the household and ZAK members also testify that once Tair was found, no one entered the toilet. The unidentified woman, who was found in the cell and was not matched, belonged to one of the many rescuers who were at the scene and was not located

. Roman Zadorov's briefcase, with the tools and clothes inside, was not sent for a real-time lab test. A briefcase that was supposed to contain the killer's clothes and tools with blood marks on them. Why? There is no answer.

Judge Cola continues to intervene in the investigation of Tzachi Segal, who was the head of the computer crime team in the northern district of the police at the time of the murder of Tair Rada, who admitted that a new technology investigation proves that Zadorov did not search for an article on knives On violent personality lines to substantiate his conviction.

Speaking of new technologies - scanning the evidence from the arena by today's advanced means, they also did not bring up a single piece of evidence linking Zadorov to the arena.

Doubt it.

Judge Cola (Photo: Flash 90, David Cohen)

At this point we come to the testimony of Yaron Shur, the expert on shoe prints from the forensic expert, who was an instructor. This was supposedly the only

forensic

evidence at the time that established the conviction, "something more" for confession and reconstruction.

Gave an explanation for other stains, did not explain how he arbitrarily decided that the size of the shoe was 42 despite the partial imprint he himself admitted that it could not be determined with certainty, and how the heel might not have been compared to the soles of school staff and students.

Judge Cola said: "I have been trying to convince for 45 minutes and have not succeeded. This view is not beyond a reasonable doubt."

The French judge also loses patience and wonders how because of this Schur wrote an opinion according to which the shoes match "with high probability".

In fact, one could say that the judges dismantled his opinion in the face of the disappointed facial expressions of a prosecutor's attorney

. Defense attorney Adv. Halevy demanded that the half-minute that preceded the section in question also be screened, so that the judges could understand the context, but the prosecution refused.

In response, Judge Cola said: "We want to see the passage from the beginning. You do not want to show it? Are you not interested in getting to the truth?"

Attorney Chen Rosenfeld of the State Attorney's Office replied that she thought "things should not have been said," and that the judge should repeat his words,

A new benchmark for the pursuit of justice.

Tair Rada (Photo: Ginny)

He then re-criticized the way Zadorov's reconstruction was conducted, during which he gave police officers the knife he had in his hand to carry out the alleged murder in order to jump over the toilet cubicle.

"Is that how you do a reconstruction?", The judge wondered.

At this point a procedure seemed to have been established.

As soon as the judges turned the spotlight on the difficulty in gathering and analyzing the evidence, and asked questions, sometimes in amazement, because it was nevertheless a resounding conviction, the prosecution was quick to respond - in insult.

The next highlight was the hearing of Dr. Chen Kugel's testimony, in which a representative of the State Attorney's Office tried to undermine the credibility of Kugel, who is also the head of the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine who signed countless opinions by virtue of his position. The dirty laundry here and now?

This has far-reaching implications.

If you say he is a 'witness to rent', you will throw out all the opinions of the Institute of Forensic Medicine. "

Dr. Kugel unequivocally claimed that blood could not flow from Tair's body hours after the murder, and for some reason the prosecution, which objected to his testimony on this specific issue, did not dwell on this point at all. The death because no blood flowed from it - that is, there was no longer any blood pressure in Tair's body

. Longings of a largely idle medical argument, Judges Cola and French intervened. And again the attorneys were offended. Then something changed.

And here we come to the present week, in which Judge Cola recounts the tremendous resonance of the trial that reaches up to it, and the prosecution has taken on the statement as finding loot.

This is the most publicized case in the history of the country, and for those sitting in the hearings, it seems that the three judges, led by her voice, turn every stone in the retrial, and try to answer every question mark he has cultivated for the State Attorney's Office.

True, the prosecution is not happy that her shame is exposed, she has no interest in confronting the fact that she has made a tremendous, not to say negligent, contribution to the evidentiary holes in the case.

Instead, why not go for the integrity of the tribunal.

And this is definitely a new benchmark for the pursuit of justice.

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