The grievance as the contested judgment based its conviction on police investigations, the forensic report, and what it called forensic evidence, without supporting the investigations with other evidence contained in the case files, thus violating the correct law and the settled jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation.
Established Cassation ruling
It is established that police investigations are not considered evidence by themselves, but rather a presumption reinforcing what the case files have presented as evidence, and conviction cannot be based on them independently, as they are merely the opinion of their source, subject to possibilities of truth and falsehood, until their source is known and determined, enabling the court to exercise its control over the evidence and assess its legal value.
The technical report
Although the technical report derived from the forensic report confirmed the occurrence of death, it is not sufficient by itself to attribute the accusation to the appellants, as it lacked an explanation of the causal link and conclusive evidence attributing the act to them, thus reliance on it was misplaced.
Cassation ruling
Since the contested judgment violated this, it was marred by deficiency in reasoning, corruption in evidence, and error in attribution, which flaws it and necessitates its annulment and ruling of acquittal of the appellants.