Jessica Wongso Testifies from 3 Expert Letters at Mirna Case PK Hearing

Jakarta –

Criminals Jessica Kumala Wongso will give documentary evidence in the follow-up hearing to the second Judicial Review (PK) application he filed regarding the Wayan Mirna Salihin murder case. Jessica will also present three experts at the trial.

This was expressed by Jessica’s lawyer, Sordame Purba, in the trial with the agenda of the novum engineer’s oath, PK’s memory reading and the prosecutor’s response at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Tuesday (29/10/ 2024). However, Sordame has not revealed who the experts will be.

“Now the panel asks if there is any other evidence besides the novum?” asked the chairman of the judging panel, Zulkifli Atjo.

“We will still submit anecdotal evidence as well as experts to your Majesty,” replied Sordame Purba.

Prosecutor Sandy Handika asked if his party could bring in a digital forensics expert so he could cross-examine Jessica’s digital forensics expert. The judge said that the prosecutor’s and Jessica’s experts could not be presented at the same time.

“With Your Highness’s permission, I apologize in advance. Can we present our expert next Monday as well? Until a confrontation takes place or can we discuss this with legal counsel, Your Highness?” asked Prosecutor Sandy.

“Go ahead. In principle, we provide the same opportunity, of course we do not sit together with the expert of the applicant and the respondent, therefore. Just answer the statement because that’s how e, please listen and answer,” said the judge.

This PK hearing will be held again on Monday (4/11) with a familiar agenda and letter evidence from Jessica Wongso.

“Therefore we will make a decision for the applicant first on Monday the 4th (November),” the judge concluded.

Previously, Jessica Kumala Wongso submitted a second request for reconsideration (PK) regarding the case of the murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin. Jessica believes the CCTV footage at Olivier’s restaurant shown in the trial so far is incomplete.

“From the beginning, we defended ourselves by saying that the CCTV footage that was played at the trial had been cut into pieces, but at that time we had no evidence of the CCTV footage and how that the judge ignored it,” said Jessica Wongso’s lawyer. , Sordame Purba , when reading out PK’s memory at the Jakarta Central District Court, Tuesday (29/10/2024).

“But finally now we have found the piece that proves it is true that this CCTV is no longer complete from beginning to end, because if we don’t know the beginning and the end of the CCTV footage, it will liable. be errors in the decisions of this case,” he said.

It is suspected that the CCTV footage used as evidence in the trial was manipulated by cropping, blurring the color of the image, and reducing the quality of the video resolution. He said that they found new evidence or novum in the form of CCTV when they were watching a program on a TV station.

“From the series of stories, we found one piece of evidence that is a novum which proves that there is a video clip, which is part of the CCTV recording that was never shown in court. disc or CD received from TVOne and containing recordings of Karni Ilyas’ interview with Mirna’s father, Darmawan Salihin, on October 7, 2023,” he said.

He said that during the incident, Mirna’s father admitted that he had CCTV footage of Olivier’s restaurant which was never shown at trial. He believes that there was a mistake by the judge and a mistake in Jessica’s case.

“In the interview, the witness Darmawan Salihin firmly admitted that there were parts of the CCTV footage of Olivier Restaurant that he had or kept and was never shown at trial,” he said. .

Jessica’s other lawyer, Andra Reinhard Pasaribu, said that the CCTV recording method did not comply with the provisions. He said that crucial moments, such as when Olivier’s former employee named Agus served and sent Mirna a coffee concoction, were lost.

“In addition to the suspicion that it was done, it was also confirmed at the trial that the procedure for capturing CCTV images does not comply with the provisions,” said Andra Reinhard Pasaribu.

Andra said that the CCTV at Olivier Restaurant which was suspected of doctoring could not be used as valid evidence. He said that the decision in Jessica’s case in the first place and the first legal investigation must be reversed because it was based on CCTV evidence.

“According to the description above, the decision of the court in the first instance up to the judicial review in this case must be set aside in law, as it was based on CCTV footage that is invalid evidence. Judex facti and judex juris is lost and he made a mistake “which is true because they have given legal consideration based on CCTV footage even if there is a suspicion that the CCTV footage has been proven,” he said.

In addition, he said there were no witnesses at the trial who said they had seen Jessica put cyanide in Mirna’s iced coffee. According to him, Olivier’s alleged CCTV manipulation was done deliberately to hide the facts.

“In the case a quo, there was not a single witness who saw the applicant for judicial review put cyanide poison into the Vietnamese iced coffee that Mirna was drinking, but judex facti and judex juris used the CCTV footage to convict the applicant for Judgment. Therefore, the decision “from the first trial to judicial review in the case a quo must be set aside as a matter of law because it was based on CCTV footage suspected of doctoring,” he said.

(mib/azh)