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Zac Kostopoulos: the real estate agent in prison, the jeweler under house arrest – The decision of the Court of Appeal

The Decision of the Court of Appeals Mitigating Factors Leading to Reduction of Initial Sentences - From 10 years to five and six years respectively

Newsroom July 10 01:22

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The real estate agent found guilty in the Zach Kostopoulos death case was sent to prison today by the Court of Appeal. The court decided that he should serve his sentence (six years in prison) in jail while, in contrast, the jeweler (who was given a five-year sentence) was given home detention, as he has reached the age of 80.

The President informed the convicted persons that they have the right to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the decision. It is worth noting that the sentences imposed are the maximum sentences, as the broker was granted the mitigating factor of previous lawful life and the jeweller was granted the mitigating factors of previous lawful life and the victim’s misconduct.

Inside the courtroom, the audience erupted after the final verdict was announced, chanting for the two convicts: “To hell with you! Murderers! Murderers!” In fact, relatives and friends of the convicts fled the special entrance for the prisoners with the crowd chanting “Murderers and Zackie is alive smash the Nazis.”

The prosecutor had denied mitigating circumstances

Note that Prosecutor St. Kostarelos said “no” to the recognition of extenuating circumstances for the jeweler and the broker in the Zach Kostopoulos case.

Specifically, the prosecutor proposed not to recognize any mitigating circumstances to the two defendants, arguing that the jeweler had trapped Zak Kostopoulos and beat him furiously inside the broken glass, when he could have avoided trapping him in the store.

With regard to the broker, the prosecutor referred, among other things, to what this defendant had said in his plea to point out, “It is not in any way tenable that he was beating out of altruistic motives. There was no improper behaviour against him by the victim.”

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Earlier, the two accused had sought mitigating circumstances of previous lawful life,appropriate behaviour by a victim, and good behaviour after the act.

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