Africa-Press – Angola. The trial session of the “Lussati Case” will resume today, after the suspension imposed by the judge on the hearing, on July 29, due to a disagreement with the body of lawyers.
At the time, according to information, most of the lawyers defending the defendants involved in the case left the courtroom, following a strong argument with the judges in the case.
As a result, Judge Andrade da Silva decided on suspension. It is said that the point of contention between the judge and the lawyers had to do with the fact that the judicial magistrate had aggravated the coercive measure of some defendants, in an order of 6 July, when the trial session was suspended, because there was an appeal filed by one of the lawyers at the Luanda Court of Appeal.
The session, at the time, had as its main agenda the reading of the accusation, by the Public Ministry and the challenges by the defendants’ lawyers, but the method set up by the presiding judge of the case collided with the lawyers’ strategies. The judge opened the trial, answered the previous questions from the previous session and gave the floor to the representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to also answer the questions left by the lawyers.
Judge Andrade da Silva asked the defendants to appoint new lawyers and notified the Angolan Bar Association about the attitude of some of its associates. “Those who saw their representative leave the room have eight days to appoint a new representative. For those who do not appoint lawyers, the Court will appoint the official representative”, he said at the time.
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