The applicant, C.B., is an Austrian national who was born in 1966 and lives in Maria Enzersdorf (Austria). He was convicted of sexual abuse of minors and of drug-related offences, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and referred to an institution for mentally-ill offenders in a judgment which became final in March 2006. Relying on Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (d) (right to a fair trial), he complains that the Austrian courts wrongly assessed the opinion by a court-appointed expert, that the courts refused to admit the opinion of an expert privately commissioned by Mr B., and that they refused to allow that expert and three other persons to testify as witnesses.
Citation: C.B. v Austria (App no 30465/06) ECHR 4 April 2013
(citation from the official press-release prepared by the European Court of Human Rights)