Maître Randall Schwerdorffer, lawyer for Jonathann Daval.
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Maître Randall Schwerdorffer was no longer a lawyer this Thursday morning in Strasbourg, but accused before the criminal court.
He was on trial for breach of professional secrecy in this high-profile criminal case.
He was released.
"I hoped, I did not really understand what I was being criticized", reacted at the end of the hearing the council.
A lawyer was among the accused this Thursday morning in Strasbourg.
Maître Randall Schwerdorffer, counsel for Jonathann Daval who confessed to killing his wife Alexia in October 2017, was appearing before the criminal court.
He was on trial for breach of professional secrecy in this high-profile criminal case.
Result?
Master Randall Schwerdorffer was released.
A decision in accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor, Gilles Bourdier, who had estimated that, in his eyes, "there are no charges" in this case.
"I am very relieved"
"I hoped, I did not really understand what I was accused of", reacted at the end of the hearing the council, one of the main penalists of the east of France.
His defense revolved around “protecting the freedom of expression of lawyers and, beyond mine, lawyers”.
"I am very relieved and satisfied to have had a jurisdiction that goes in this direction," he added.
Our file on the Daval affair
He was prosecuted by the public prosecutor of Besançon, Etienne Manteaux, for breach of professional secrecy.
On December 7, 2018, he reportedly disclosed information to Jonathann Daval's mother, on the sidelines of a series of hearings during which the computer scientist again confessed to the murder, after having retracted for several months.
The scene took place near the coffee machine in the Salle des Pas Perdus of the Besançon Judicial Court, then invaded by journalists.
Me Schwerdorffer was criticized in particular for having told him that Jonathann had burst into tears when he had been presented with a photo of Alexia and their cat Happy, brought the same day by Alexia's mother.
"If we can't say that, what is the place of the lawyer?"
Can't we say anything?
I did not take an oath to be afraid and shut up all the time!
“, Had launched the lawyer of bisontin at the bar.
His three counsels, Messrs Marylène Correia, Patrice Euvrard and Antoine Fittante, had requested the release of their client, arguing that the words referred to, which are part of a duty of "humanity", in no way hindered the investigation. more than they revealed secrets.
The Strasbourg criminal court ruled in their favor.
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