Two men prosecuted in drug cases were acquitted by the Thionville criminal court, one after the other, a month apart, even before being tried. A lawyer from Thionville, Me Jérôme Tiberi, raised a nullity of procedure in these two similar cases. An irregularity that simply invalidated the legal proceedings.
It was each time a question of the time available to the authorities to notify their rights to a person arrested. “This period starts from the moment the person is deprived of their liberty”, recalls Me Tiberi. It relies…
–
