“Hard trap professional criminals – but bevisribban is not too high”

“once again, we have a gängmord led to the acquittal judgment.”

“once again, complaining about the police officers and prosecutors on the standard of proof has become too high.”

“In August 2017, was murdered a person when three adults and a child were shot at in a garage in Östberga in Stockholm, sweden.”

“the Svea court of appeal acquitted a man of the court was sentenced for complicity to murder and complicity to attempted murder.”

“the Court considers all of the part that it is proven that the man at the in any case any time you have had the car that the shooter was traveling in, and he has helped to fire it up, but that indicierna is not sufficient to establish that he participated in the shooting.”

“this is the third judgment in what police suspect are one and the same gängkonflikt. In all cases there was a conviction in the district court. In all cases, the proposed court of appeal for the accused.”

“In november 2017, shot a gang leader to death in his car in the Mariehäll. And just over a year earlier, two masked men fire on a car that was first prejats into a tree. The beskjutne survived.”

“Thousands of utredningstimmar, good technical evidence in the form of dna, every stone facing. Still exculpatory judgments.”

“it Has become too difficult to get the professional criminals convicted? Has the presentation of evidence been raised? Set the bar unreasonably high?”

“As so often is the case when the issues are complex, the answers vary. And as so often is the case, tend answers to hang together with the role you have in the courtroom.”

“Many police officers and prosecutors argue that the standard of proof has been raised. Many defense attorneys feel that they have been reduced, in each case, when it comes to some sexualbrottmål. Many judges are of the opinion that they have neither been raised or lowered.”

“there is Probably no simple answer. But reasonably leads the development of the serious crime, which is becoming increasingly complex and vittförgrenad, also to increased problems with the evidence.”

“Cut the criminals know not to leave a trace behind. Fingerprints are for amateurs. And they have not seldom a paradoxical advantage of belonging to the criminal world. Sure, I have worn it where the revolver. But it was not I who had it since it was used.”

“a criminal conviction is required, in principle, go to exclude the possibility that the crime has gone another way than what the prosecutor claims happened.”

“Thus is the bar set high. But not too high. Most of the professional criminals who are being prosecuted for the murders will, after all, convicted.”

“And if we lower the requirements, the more innocent to be convicted. It is an unreasonable price to pay.”