Armenia

Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia

GENERAL PART

Section Three: PARTIES AND OTHER PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 8. DEFENDANT PARTY

Article 70. Invitation, Appointment, Substitution of Defense Attorney and other Grounds of his/her Participation in the Criminal Trial

4. In cases, prescribed by Point 2, Part 3 of this Article, the body, conducting the criminal trial, is entitled to offer the suspect or the accused to invite another defense attorney themselves.

5. The body of inquiry, the investigator, the prosecutor, the court have the right to offer the suspect and the accused to invite another defense attorney themselves, or to appoint the defense attorney through the Union of Lawyers of the Republic of Armenia in the following cases:

1) upon impossibility of the defense attorney to arrive for the participation in the first interrogation of the suspect or the accused, taken to imprisonment, within 24 hours from the moment of acquiring the status of the defense attorney or in the case of not arrival within the same time frame;
2) upon impossibility of the participation of the defense attorney in the criminal case proceeding for more than 3 days.

Keywords

Fair trial standards
Rights during trial - counsel of accused's choosing



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