The police top lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops hired to exonerate a cop shooting. Ronald V. policeman was sentenced to two years in prison last year for the shooting of the co-driver of a fleeing ramkraker.
Amsterdam's criminal lawyer pulls out all the stops to prevent V. disappears behind lock and key. On appeal, on Wednesday, doing four members of the detention unit where V. was part of their story. V. will itself be heard as a witness by the court in Den Bosch.
Knoops is the first lawyer to whom the National Police appeals since the establishment of lawyers pole. That pole, with twenty top lawyers, late last year, was created by former police chief Gerard Bouman. He was furious about the conviction of V. and wished shooting cops get the best legal assistance.
Lawyers in the group must be reached day and night. In addition, they get shooting training so they can better identify with the choices made by an agent under pressure. The well-known criminal lawyer Hans Anker is in the pool.
Unprecedented prison
Ronald V. (32) shot on August 22 2013 in Heerlen at a ramkraker who hit fleeing in his car.The court ruled that Maastricht V. should not shoot. His prison sentence of two years is unprecedented: never before was an agent according to jail should a similar shooting.
V. went on ramkraker Glenn K., but hit his passenger. According to a doctor was shot on a centimeter after been fatal. The Prosecution wanted V. initially not prosecute, but the crew still forced off a lawsuit through the courts. It demanded the OM acquittal, but the judge did not go along with this.
The police announced that V. is still working pending the appeal. He is no longer a member of a detention unit, but does work on the street and carrying a firearm. Unwise ,, "says Warmolt Tonckens, lawyer of the crew. ,, My client prefers that the agent no longer a weapon on the streets can."
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