The applicant was eventually convicted of theft and sentenced to five years� imprisonment by a first-instance judgment of the Alba Iulia District Court on 23 November 2009.
B. Relevant domestic law
Article 160h of the Romanian Code of Criminal Procedure, as in force at the time of events, provided that for minors aged between 14 and 16 pretrial detention could be extended only on an exceptional basis.
COMPLAINT
The applicants complain under Article 5 of the Convention that the first applicant�s pre-trial detention was unreasonably long and that the domestic courts had provided stereotyped reasoning for maintaining him in detention and without taking into account the arguments which had been raised by the applicants in support of releasing him pending trial.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Having regard to the first applicant�s age at the time and to the reasoning of the domestic courts, was the length of his pre-trial detention in breach of the �reasonable time� requirement of Article 5 � 3 of the Convention (see Nart v. Turkey, no. 20817/04, �� 30-35, 6 May 2008)?
The Government are invited to submit copies of all the interlocutory judgments by which the first applicant�s pre-trial detention was extended and the appeal decisions delivered.