The Constitutional Court referred to the January 18 application submitted by the second president of the Republic of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan’s legal team, and decided to accept proceedings.

As reported by Robert Kocharyan’s legal team, the application submitted to the CC refers to the legislative regulations provided for in part 2 of Article 419 (Powers of the Court of Cassation) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (As a result of the review of judicial acts that do not resolve the case in essence, the court of cassation rejects the cassation appeal, leaving the judicial act in legal force, or makes a new judicial act, which enters into legal force on since).

The application also raised the issues of lack of reasonable time limits for the detention hearing in the cassation proceedings and other issues in addition to the law in general.

April 9 has been set as the day to begin the trial of the case.