Court refuses to add video from crime venue to case files of Budanov's murder

In Moscow, at the trial on the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov, the court has dismissed the petition lodged by advocates of the defendant Yusup Temerkhanov, who asked to add the photos made from the video, which had allegedly fixed the moment of investigatory actions conducted in the place of the crime, to the case files.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that Murad Musaev, the defendant's advocate, asked the court to review and add to the case files the photos that he had made from the video, which was not an operative filming. Earlier, at the session on December 4, Musaev asked the court to watch the video as such.

However, the court found no arguments in favour of adding the stills covering 6 A4 pages to the case files, explaining that they had been obtained out of the proceedings order; and it is impossible the define the date when the video and the stills were filmed and made.

Then, in the presence of the panel of jurymen, the state prosecution passed over to interrogation of witnesses.

The prosecutor's office also continued presenting evidence to the court; in particular, the conclusions of the ballistic examination of the model LI pistol were announced. The pistol was remade from an IZh-79 gas pistol; and in the opinion of inspectors it was used to shoot Yuri Budanov dead. The prosecutors demonstrated the pistol, a magazine with cartridges thereto, six cartridge cases and four bullets extracted from Budanov's body to the panel of jurymen.

Yuri Budanov was killed on June 10, 2011. In August 2011, Yusup Temerkhanov, a native of Chechnya, was arrested as a suspect of committing the murder. The trial on the case began on December 3 at the Moscow City Court. The defendant refused to plead guilty.