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The Appeals Committee of the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the appeal of the former policeman convicted of corruption and drugs, Eirik Jensen.
Jensen (63) and his attorneys appealed for both law enforcement, procedural errors, confiscation, the issue of guilt, and sentencing.
Unanimously rejected
The three judges on the Supreme Court Appeals Committee unanimously rejected the appeal.
It follows a six-year dragon fight in the Norwegian police and judiciary after Eirik Jensen was arrested in the basement of the police station in Greenland in January 2014.
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The Supreme Court has been considered Jensen’s last hope.
Jensen was sentenced to 21 years in prison at the Oslo District Court in the fall of 2017. The verdict was appealed to the Borgarting Court of Appeal, where a jury in January last year found Jensen guilty of serious corruption, but cleared him of a drug offense.
– sad as hell
The judges of the Borgarting Court of Appeal rejected the jury’s ruling. Therefore, the case returned to the Court of Appeal, which sentenced him to 21 years in prison this summer. That verdict will now stand.
– This is very sad. I’m afraid Eirik will have a big blast, Eirik Jensen’s girlfriend Ragna Lise Vikre tells Dagbladet on Tuesday afternoon.
Jensen himself is now incarcerated at Kongsvinger. His attorney, John Christian Elden, tells Dagbladet that he is heading to jail Tuesday afternoon to break the news to Jensen.
– Last word not said
-We are on our way to inform you of the decision of the appeals committee. It is disappointing that they are not open to the consideration of the case in the Supreme Court, but I doubt that the last word has been said in the case yet, Elden tells Dagbladet.
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– When reading the verdict, Jensen still does not know how he should have participated in the import of hashish, and cannot understand why he should be denied to verify if the phones and text messages used against him are genuine and complete, Elden says.
Next, the lawyer refers to the refusal of the Court of Appeal to give the defenders access to the phones seized from Cappelen to carry out their own analyzes. The Appeals Committee considers that they have no basis to overturn the decision.
Defeat
Jensen was arrested after this summer’s verdict and has been in custody multiple times since then, until this final decision was made. Now it can be expected that he will soon be transferred to ordinary prison.
The decision is a gigantic defeat for Jensen and his legal team. Hash baron Gjermund Cappelen, whom Jensen was convicted of aiding and receiving millions in corruption money, was sentenced this summer to 13 years in prison.
In the appeal to the Supreme Court, which is more than 50 pages long, where the parts are secret and not available to the media, Eirik Jensen’s legal team attacks the verdict of the Borgarting Court of Appeal.
Convicted without evidence
The reason parts of the appeal are exempt from public access is that the appeal also deals with the part of the case that was conducted behind closed doors.
– Good care
Attorneys John Christian Elden and Sidsel Katralen believe that Jensen has been convicted without evidence and that the court has only emphasized Gjermund Cappelen’s explanation. Without the accusations of Cappelen have been substantiated.
However, the Supreme Court harshly attacks the appeal. The Appeals Committee justifies this on the basis that the judgment of the Court of Appeal is well structured and very complete.
– We teach Cappelen to lie
– In an allegation that the Court of Appeal to Jensen’s detriment has applied an incorrect evidentiary requirement, the Appeals Committee has observed that the grounds for the judgment of the Court of Appeal, on the contrary, leave the impression that the Court of Appeal Appeal has shown great caution in evaluating evidence and that the grounds do not provide evidence. Reasonable doubt will benefit Jensen, writes the Supreme Court in the decision.
They also criticize the letters supporting the appeal, especially those written by Jensen and his advocates.
– Much has been said that it actually applies to the specific evaluation of the Court of Appeal evidence, which the Supreme Court cannot judge, writes the Supreme Court.
Jensen, 63, who throughout his life has been a leader and main figure in the Oslo police’s fight against serious gang and drug crimes, has always denied criminal guilt.
