"The Israeli Supreme Court 2 to 1 decided to reject Roman Zadarov’s
appeal, after he was convicted twice of murdering a little girl named
Tair Rada nine years ago while she was studying in school. The position
of one of the judges is that it may be that Zadorov’s guilt is not
proven after many of those present explained that Zadorov is right. Zadarov’s lawyers explained their logic for submitting the request:
“Can we give someone a life prison sentence when a Supreme Court judge
says there are doubts about his conviction? We were disappointed of
course. We expected that Roman would be acquitted.” In contrast, the
Northern District Prosecution welcomed the decision: “Tools for hope
ended in the Israeli Supreme Court.”
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/in-israel/local/israeli-supreme-court-roman-zadarov-murdered-tair-rada-17970
From a recent post:
"Forensic issues - and
an allegation of interference with the independence of the Coroner's
office - abound. "At the center of a long session that the Supreme
Court held a little over a year ago on the appeal of Zadorov’s second
conviction was the issue of footprints at the murder scene, a locked
toilet stall in a second floor lavatory at the Nofei Golan school in
Katzrin, including blood found on Rada’s jeans. According to an expert
prosecution witness, there was a high probability that the footprints
were those of Zadorov. For its part, however, the defense presented the
opinion of a former employee of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
who claimed that the blood stains were not footprints at all. Recently,
as disclosed by Haaretz, a complication arose in the case after the
head of the commission that oversees the prosecutor’s office, retired
Judge Hila Gerstl, issued a decision regarding an attempt to change an
affidavit by the head of the coroner’s office, Dr. Chen Kugel, who
expressed opposition to the state’s position in the Zadorov case. For
her part, Gerstl said this constituted “apparent interference in the
chief testimony of a witness” and ruled that the prosecutor’s office had
mishandled the case.""
http://smithforensic.blogspot.ca/2015/12/bulletin-roman-zadorov-israel-supreme.html