The “Black spot”: The Bucharest Court of Appeals’ Prosecutor’s Office

A communiqué of the Bucharest Court of Appeals’ Prosecutor’s Office tries to justify its decision to appeal the sentencing of two militiamen convicted of murdering anticommunist dissident Gheorghe Ursu.  In their version, they pretend the court did not follow all the procedures.  We would have expected the Prosecutor’s Office to appeal for demanding a heavier prison term, at least out of respect for the family of the one killed in the communist jail.  But the bosses of the Prosecutor’s Office intervened to the convict’s defense, against the very meaning of the prosecutor’s duty, which is to fight for proving the defendants’ guilt.  But after all that’s been happening in the world of Prosecutor’s Offices since at their helm is Tanase Joita, no one is really surprised by the gesture of the Bucharest Court of Appeals’ Prosecutor’s Office.