At today's trial of the Hakob Hakobyan criminal case, 27 year-old Hamlet Hovhannesyan submitted a written motion to the court that the evidence he gave yesterday be considered invalid. He requested that the evidence he gave during the preliminary investiagation stand as is. Yesterday Mr. Hovhannesyan had testified that he had no connection with the events in question and that he was home on March 1, 2008. He had offered testimony of an accusatory nature against Hakob Hakobyan and Armen Farmanyan, one of the victims of March 1st. Today, the witness claimed that upon seeing Hakob Hakobyan's relatives in the court room yesterday he had suffered a bout of stress that led him to make statements that weren't true. Melanya Aroustamyan, Mr. Hakobyan's lawyer, commented, "It is only natural that the witness made such a motion. After testifying yesterday he simply vanished from the court room. Reporters were waiting to ask him some questions afterwards. But it is clear who slipped Mr. Hovhannesyan through a back door." Hovsep Sargsyan requested that the court respect the motion of the witness and noted that it wasn't presented by the prosecution but by the witness himself. He asked that the witness again be interrogated in the name of getting at the truth. The judge then retired to chambers to deliberate on the motion.