Joseph Cohen-Sabban and Xavier Nogueras appear for “attempted scam at the judgment” alongside Robert Dawes, in Paris. Faced with the severity of the prosecution’s requisitions, their defenders denounced a “criminal defense trial”.
by Pascale Robert-Diard
Two criminal lawyers, an experienced truckier and a promising young man, were rolled in the flour by a customer too big for them. Their sentence is already there: a scathing slap for the first, Joseph Cohen-Sabban, who arrived at the port after a long and good career. Wings cut in full flight for the second, Xavier Nogueras.
Such appeared the case, lightened by his fantasies, after two weeks of hearing before the Paris Criminal Court. But the excess of the requisitions pronounced Thursday, February 2 by the two prosecutors – three years’ imprisonment, including two closed against Joseph Cohen -Sabban, two years including a farm against Xavier Nogueras, with their professional banishment for five years – Switch the trial in incomprehension and anger on the defense benches.
Until then, underlined M e Hervé TEMIME, who intervened in defense of Xavier Nogueras alongside M e Matthieu Chirez, the debate had been “loyal” . It is acquired that the two lawyers were unaware of the falsehood of the documents they deposited in December 2018 before the Paris Assize Court in defense of the narcotracier Robert Dawes. It appears just as obvious that this falsification was thought and suggested by the latter, then made by his henchman, Evan Hughes, fourth defendant of this file and great absent from the hearing.
remained to understand how Joseph Cohen-Sabban and Xavier Nogueras had been able to go headlong in this manipulation and what criminal faults were likely to be reproached. For one as for the other, the public exhibition of their professional failure, under the sly gaze of their former client and in front of the judges, was a ordeal. Negligence, lack of work, rivalries between lawyers, recklessness, passivity and above all guilty blindness in the face of a formidable customer, which they did not take the measure. “Well, in short, it was not the American defense team,” summed up the president of the court, Isabelle Prevost-Desprez.
nuggets fallen from the sky
While juggling their criminal or correctional audiences, a clientele of robbers and city traffickers for Joseph Cohen-Sabban, accused in terrorist files for Xavier Nogueras, Robert Dawes, he devoted his days and His nights to develop his own defense strategy, by exchanging with his devoted Evan Hughes, thanks to the phone he hid in his cell. To him, the drug trafficker confided everything, and in particular his project of “mixing the truths” (“to merge in with truths”) in perspective of the assize trial, as evidenced by the transcription of a conversation on messaging found during the ‘ Instruction.
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