Yury Kachan said a Moscow Region court would hold preliminary hearings in the criminal case against Russian Nationalist Unity leader Alexander Barkashov and three alleged accomplices, who prosecutors said attacked an anti-organized crime police major outside Moscow on December 2, 2005.
Barkashov, 52, and three others will stand trial on charges of premeditated hooliganism, and face up to seven years in jail if convicted.
Kachan said that the case had been faked, and that he would demand his clients be acquitted.
"We have found forged evidence while studying the case materials," Kachan said, adding that the questioning records had been falsified. He said he would demand an inquiry into investigators' activities.
On January 30, a local court ruled to release Barkashov on bail of 100,000 rubles ($3,600) until the trial. The others remain in custody.
Russian National Unity is the country's most militant ultranationalist party, which uses symbols including a modified swastika, black uniforms, and raised-arm salutes.
