On 24 April 2004 the Vyborgskiy Federal District Court of Saint-Petersburg authorised the applicant’s pre-trial detention. He remained in custody pending investigation and trial. 7.

As to the criminal proceedings, a bill of indictment was compiled and submitted for trial. However, the case was then returned to the prosecutor (apparently, on two occasions).

    On 30 May 2006 the Warsaw Court of Appeal extended the applicant’s detention until 9 December 2006, considering that the trial court should be able to finish the trial before that date. 25

The trial transcript reveals that the applicant was, however, able to hear the indictment read out at the beginning of the trial and pleaded "not guilty" to each of the seven counts put to him.

detention; -     The length of their pre-trial detention was excessive; -     The magistrates’ courts who ruled on their pre-trial detention lacked independence and impartiality; -

in view of restrictions on the right to examine witnesses - inability to cross-examine in the trial the police officers on whose written statements the applicant’s conviction was based, in both sets of

  Einhorn will be recommitted, without a new trial, to serve the life sentence imposed after a trial at which he was not present, a sentencing at which he was not present, and an appeal he was not

After more than a year of trial proceedings, on 14 October 2005 the trial court decided to remit the case for further investigation.

    The trial 18.     After completion of the pre-trial investigation, the applicant’s case was sent to trial at the Sheki Court for Serious Crimes.

release pending trial.

at the trial.

Trial on indictment 40.

within a reasonable time or to release pending trial.

    They also complain that the trial was unfair.

The trial court had granted these requests. 22.

Proceedings concerning pre-trial detention 4 .

On 9 November 2006 the prosecutor asked for an extension of the applicant’s detention pending trial.

The pre-trial judge issued decisions in respect of both the aforementioned requests on 9 September 2011.

    On 15 June 2010 the Leninskyy District Court of Sevastopol (“the District Court”) ordered the applicant’s pre-trial detention.