Alan Dershowitz, a professor of the Harvard Law School who has become a special advisor to former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, has started examining the details of the criminal case opened in relation to the murder of reporter Georgy Gongadze.
The website of Kuchma’s Ukraine fund says that the professor who is studying the details of the case has the greatest doubts about the use as evidence of what is known as the Melnychenko tapes because for ten years their authenticity has been either denied or doubted.
From the viewpoint of criminal justice, it is relatively easy to make changes in a digital recording that can create the impression of the guilt of the speaker, the lawyer believes. Different parts of such a recording can be easily removed, copied, inserted or changed, he said.
The fund says that Dershowitz counts benefitting the team with his experience both as an attorney for the defense and an expert on criminal evidence.
The website says that during his almost half a century long career Dershowitz has won numerous high-profile cases in the United States and elsewhere. His services have been used by the heads of state and governments, U.N. figures, governors, members of the U.S. Congress and Senate, and business leaders.
According to the fund, the professor is one of the lawyers of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
