"The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition for a second appeal by a Ukrainian-Israeli handyman convicted in the high-profile, brutal murder of a teenage girl at a Golan Heights school in 2006. Roman Zadarov is serving a life sentence for the 2006 grisly murder of 13-year-old Tair Rada, who was found stabbed to death in a bathroom stall in her Katzrin school, with slashes to her neck, stab wounds across her body, and severe blows to her head. In the ruling, Supreme Court President Miriam Naor said that despite the substantial public interest in the case, there was no “legal justification” to retry Zadorov. “There must be a distinction between public interest and what the law demands,” Naor wrote in her decision. A synagogue in Katzrin named after Tair Rada, who was killed in 2006 when she was 13 years old. (Screen capture: Channel 2) Zadorov, who worked as a maintenance man at the school at the time, was arrested and charged with the killing. Two weeks after his arrest, police announced Zadorov had confessed to Rada’s murder and reenacted the attack for investigators. But a day later, Zadorov’s defense attorney announced that his client had recanted his confession, claiming his confession and reenactment were coerced and included incorrect information. In 2010, nearly four years after he was first arrested, the Nazareth District Court sentenced him to life in prison. Much of the public debate over Zadorov’s conviction focused on the type of knife used — the murder weapon was never recovered — and a bloody footprint found on Rada’s jeans. In his confession, Zadorov said he attacked Rada with a box cutter, which has a smooth blade, whereas a forensic expert testified that wounds on the victim’s chin were caused by a serrated knife. He maintains that his confession was coerced. Last December, a panel of three Supreme Court Judges upheld Zadorov’s conviction in a split 2-1 decision. The dissenting opinion came from Justice Yoram Danziger, who said there was sufficient reasonable doubt to exonerate Zadorov.........Meanwhile, public support for Zadorov has grown steadily, with his supporters alleging his conviction was based on circumstantial evidence and claiming police framed him.
In recent months, online petitions and social
media groups calling on President Reuven Rivlin to commute Zadorov’s
life sentence have garnered thousands of supporters in Israel and
abroad."
http://www.timesofisrael.com/court-rejects-request-for-appeal-in-teens-brutal-murder/See Wikipedia entry at the link below: "Roman Zadorov (Ukrainian: Роман Задоров) is a Ukrainian citizen, who is serving a life sentence in Israel for the murder of Tair Rada in 2006. His prosecution and conviction are widely believed by various experts, as well as a large part of the Israeli public to be a case of framing by police, false prosecution and false conviction. Israeli Criminal Law Professor Boaz Sangero wrote: "Conviction with no real evidence". Mordechai Kremnitzer (Professor Emeritus of International Law at Hebrew University, one of the leaders of the Israel Democracy Institute) wrote:"Conduct of the prosecution is scary... the prosecution is not seeking the truth... the justice system is mostly busy protecting itself..." The case is unprecedented in positioning senior legal experts, senior forensic medical experts, the Israel Medical Association, the Ministry of Health (Israel), NGOs and the public at large against various types of wrongdoing by the justice system."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Zadorov
