The accused claimed that he intended to evade arrest rather than attack the police officer. In this regard, the District Court has referred to the judgments expressed in the case law of the Supreme Court and indicated that the reason why the accused tried to avoid arrest is not decisive, but rather his deliberately performed actions, which were related to violence. The Senate recognized that the defendant’s cassation complaint did not present such arguments that could be the basis for canceling the district court’s decision in the relevant part.
The defendant argued that the violations he was charged with, including rapid braking, were due to the influence of narcotic substances, but the evidence related to how his ability to adequately manage the situation on the road and logically plan his actions was affected by the shot to the head was not evaluated. In this regard, the AT recognized that the appellate court did not evaluate all the evidence obtained in the case as a whole and in their interrelationship, previously assigned a higher degree of reliability to certain evidence than the rest of the evidence, did not evaluate certain evidence at all, and, on the other hand, several opinions do not correspond to the evidence obtained in the case.
It has already been reported that on July 24, 2019, while catching a man convicted of car theft, the police fired at least 15 shots in his direction.
On July 24, around 7 p.m., the police received information from residents that an “Audi A6” car was driving along Krasta Street in Riga, and its driver was behaving inappropriately. The police, attracting two patrol police crews, tried to stop the car, but the driver did not comply with the police’s demands. On Moskavas Street, the fugitives tried to block him, but he rammed the police car and continued his escape.
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