Even under the current legislation the problem of overload of the prisons may be solved if the officials and specifically the judicial system will abandon the ideas that come from the soviet times. Advocate Arthur Grigoryan also added, ” Why should a person be detained, if it is possible to replace detention by bail or on recognizance not to leave. Not to consider him as a “product”, but as long as the fact of his guilt is not proved, to look at him from the aspect of a free citizen in the context of presumption of innocence.” According to the lawyer, the main problem here is in understanding this important circumstance, which is rather slowly moving forward in our reality, though there is some progress. “Today, our courts more frequently use the practice of rejecting of the motions on substitution of arrest by bail, considering such motion as unreasoned. I’ve had case where the court considered the grounded suspicion of the investigator as unreasoned. However several years before such approach was still seeming as a heroism when the court applied bail,” concluded the advocate.
The Courts should look at the Person not like at a “Product”; Advocate
