Very, very unusual witness appeared in court last week in the French city of Tours.9-year-old Labrador named Tango appeared there as a witness for the prosecution in an attempt to identify the accused murderer of his master.
27-year-old boy beaten with a baseball bat.According to relatives of the dead man, dog saw what had happened, that is,and I saw the killer.
With the consent of the judge hearing the case of the murder, the dog entered the courtroom.The suspect was ordered to pick up a bat and swing it to the Tango.participants to the court could watch the reaction of the dog.Then, for comparison, in the hall we entered another similar dog, again, 9-year-old Labrador - named Norman.The accused was told to wave the bat and before Norman.
Reaction both pooches on actions of the accused was similar: fear and tail between its legs.
Thus, no results of the experiment is not given, then the defendant's lawyer, protested against the meeting and try to urge a judge to witness the dog, subjected to sharp criticism of its action.
"Attempts of this kind can be a dangerous precedent - he said to the press. - With regard to my client had taken illegal actions. As conclusions could be drawn from the fact that the man waved his bat in front of the muzzle a dog, and he raised his right leg and pursedtail? Does this mean that the dog recognized my client? Such actions cause me great concern for French justice. If the court chooses to ignore logic and the cause of those who did not fit in witnesses, it carries the risk of the entire judicial system. "
Court continues and should be completed this week.
By the way, in France, it is the second attempt to draw a dog as a witness in court.For the first time such a precedent took place six years ago.Then the 59-year-old woman found hanging in her Paris apartment.Despite the fact that the initial examination indicated that the poor hanged herself, her family suspected that there had been a murder.After police arrested the suspect, the relatives demanded to summon a single witness who was in the apartment at the time of her death - her dog Scooby.
judge agreed and Scooby staged a confrontation with the suspect.Dog Hollow on the man and that was it."Certificate" Scooby did not give unambiguous results.
