Judge Danilkin: I Bear Responsibility for That Sentence until my Dying Day

Judge Viktor Danilkin, the Chairman of the Khamovnicheski Court in Moscow, categorically denied the recent allegations made by his judicial assistant, Natalia Vasilieva, that the sentencing decision in the Khodorkovsky and Lebedev case was written by someone outside the court and imposed on Danilkin against his will. “The sentence was written by me, the sentence was written consciously,” Danilkin said in a TV interview. “I signed that sentence, I announced it, and I bear responsibility for that sentence until my dying day.”

http://www.1tv.ru/news/polit/171543
http://echo.msk.ru/blog/echomsk/752800-echo/ (video)