Defending the rights of suspects in criminal proceedings, you need to be prepared for everything on the part of the investigation – this is the conclusion you come to over time, as a defender.
In the criminal proceedings accusing our client of a particularly serious crime, which has a partly political connotation, we had to face the fact that the investigation deliberately forged our client’s signature and sent to court a document with requirements that clearly did not meet the interests of our client. In order to prevent a decision that would satisfy the requirements set forth in the document submitted by the investigation, we as a defense informed the court that such a document was not submitted by our client, and was informed about the forgery of such a signature. After that, both the court and our client became victims of harassment by the investigation.
As a result, criminal proceedings were instituted against our client for providing false evidence to the person on the fact of forgery of his signature. The investigation worked quickly, which is not usually typical of such work. However, no one stood out and the evidence gathered raises many questions.
In addition, the investigation immediately appealed to the court to apply to our client such a precautionary measure as detention. Why did the investigation demand to apply such a precautionary measure, which according to the Code of Criminal Procedure is considered the most severe? – a rhetorical question. However, after taking all possible measures, the defense proved to the court that the request of the investigation was not subject to satisfaction. The result of our work was a court decision in favor of our client. For us, this means, above all, that our client will be able to lead a normal life, live with his family and feel like a full member of society.
The decision of the Pechersk district court of the city of Kiev from 19.08.2020
Case № 757/34911/20-k