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o)
“States have a valid possibility of opting between the absolute
exclusion of contaminated evidence and all evidence related to it, and the rule
that allows the content to be assessed independently of the penalty to be
imposed on the accused, and between the rule on weighing the different
interests and the rule that allows the evidence collected in procedures carried
out in good faith by the police authorities to be assessed freely”;
p)
The judgment handed down against the alleged victim used two
complementary theories on the consequences of violations of the probative
procedure: the “good faith theory” and the “theory of the independence of the
consequences”;
q)
The “rule on the exclusion of evidence” refers exclusively to the
prohibition to use in a judicial proceeding “evidence obtain in direct violation
of the fundamental human rights of a person. It does not presume to exclude
all evidence without distinction. It does not consider violations of the rule of
competence to be a cause for excluding material that has previously been
gathered, nor does it consider that the annulment of a proceeding should
immediately result in an absolute prohibition to re-use the evidence that was
gathered in order to open it”;
r)
There are no reasons to conclude that the rules established by the
Convention and by the Court’s case law make it obligatory “to invalidate all
the evidence obtained by the police under certain conditions, without first
differentiating between those procedures that are defective owing to human
rights violations and the others that are not defective for the same reasons”;
s)
The defect of a “nullity per se” of the case records, based on an
alleged nullity owing to context, has no basis in the Convention, not even in
the theory of “the fruit of the forbidden tree”;
t)
“There is no basis for affirming that [Lori] Berenson […] was convicted
as a result of the transferred evidence.” The civil court “processed more than
100 pieces of evidence during the preliminary investigation, which is the
judicial investigation; and during the trial, which is the adversarial procedure.
The judge’s opinion was based on these 100 pieces of evidence, which
included testimonies, confrontations, expert reports, inspection by experts
and discussion with experts, and the examination of documents”;
u)
The sentence handed down against the alleged victim “[was]
supported by the evidence processed and incorporated into the proceeding,
and […] the evidence [was] only used after it had been discussed and
incorporated during the trial”;
v)
From the records of the sessions of the ordinary oral proceeding it can
be seen that “abundant evidence” was produced at this stage of the
proceeding, complying with the principles and procedural guarantees
established in the Peruvian Constitution;
w)
The invalidity of the records of the military proceeding cannot affect
the possibility of cross-examining the individuals who testified before the
military authorities again, or again discussing the physical and documentary
evidence that they included initially;
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