Yerevan.today reports that the criminal case against Judge Davit Grigoryan has been dropped, and Grigoryan has been acquitted. “The unlawful criminal prosecution against Judge Davit Grigoryan demised today after a long illness, and the latter was acquitted,” Judge Davit Grigoryan’s attorney Georgi Meliqyan wrote on his Facebook page today. Since it turns out that Davit Grigoryan is innocent, should the case of alleged overthrow of constitutional order be inscribed to him again? In response to Yerevan.today’s question, second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan’s attorney Hayk Alumyan said the following: “I’m not familiar with the details of the court ruling. If the court has concluded that instituting a criminal case and bringing a charge against Judge Grigoryan were unlawful, this means suspending powers, taking the case from him and transferring it to Judge Danibekyan were unlawful acts,” Hayk Alumyan said.

To note, Davit Grigoryan is the judge who made a decision on May 18, 2019 to release second President Robert Kocharyan from custody.

On July 26 of the same year, the then Acting Prosecutor General filed a petition on three counts with the Supreme Judicial Council to launch criminal proceedings against Judge Grigoryan along the lines of a criminal case being investigated on the grounds of official fraud.

And while Judge Davit Grigoryan was on vacation, a search was conducted in his office and it was sealed.