In Russia for the first time in recent years has increased the number of acquittals. About this newspaper “Vedomosti” with reference to the statistics of the judicial Department under the Supreme court of Russia.
Since 2013, this indicator increased by 8.3 percent to 2 256 excuses. However, their share on the General background is still scanty, although changed from 0.3 to 0.36 per cent.
This trend is explained by the fact that juries have to consider more criminal cases, said the publication of researcher of Institute of problems of enforcement at the European University in St.-Petersburg Ekaterina Khodzhaeva. Abbreviated panel of six judges now operate not only in the courts of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, but also in the district. They consider murder, causing of heavy harm to health, entailed death, and also cases of drug trafficking.
