Аннотация: MMMCDXCII. Man squatting. The story from the legal practice. - May 18, 2024.
Man squatting. The story from the legal practice.
The dispute between the two legal entities lasted for several years.
About a year and a half after the start of this arbitration process, a phone call rang in my office.
I picked up the phone and heard a panicked female scream: "Nikolai Fedorovich (the head of the organization I represented) had a family member killed!!!"
The details came out later. A man with a pistol entered the house of Nikolai Fedorovich. One of the family members was in the house at the time. The man who entered the house fired two shots. A family member who was at home at the time was killed. The man with the pistol disappeared.
Nikolai Fedorovich was depressed by this incident, but he continued to defend his interests in the arbitration process.
It's been another eight months.
New unexpected news has come: the head of the organization opposing us in the arbitration dispute has been arrested.
Now there were two trials going on simultaneously: one arbitration, the other criminal.
The criminal process - before the transfer of the case to the court - practically did not concern me.
We (I had constant contact with Nikolai Fedorovich, the head of the organization I represented) received information that some people were detained for some random reason almost in another state.
During the interrogation, one of them suddenly began to talk not only about the circumstances that caused his detention, but also about the details of the murder in the house of Nikolai Fedorovich.
As a result, several people (including the head of the organization - the opposite side of the arbitration dispute) were arrested.
The case was at some point referred to the court for consideration by a jury.
Someone advised Nikolai Fedorovich a lawyer to protect his interests in the criminal process.
Sometimes I wondered how the hearings were going. I was surprised that the lawyer did not send written petitions, limiting himself mainly to oral appeals to the judge. In general, these details did not particularly concern me, since I was not a participant in the criminal process.
My thoughts periodically returned to all the circumstances surrounding these two trials.
Sometimes I remembered that about a month before the tragic incident (murder) I left the office, which was located on the sixth floor of a multi-storey building and went to another floor (on some business).
The stairwells were concrete, free of any objects. Bare concrete. There were no windows. Perhaps this was required by the rules of fire safety. The staircase was illuminated by electric light.
On a completely empty staircase, a guy was squatting [a guy was on squatt], with his back against a concrete wall.
The sight was completely unusual and strange. Due to the unusual nature of this fact, I began to ask the sitting guy: who did he come to? What's the case?
I don't remember what he answered. When I returned back to the sixth floor, he was gone.
Gradually, the criminal trial moved forward.
Suddenly, I received a call to one of the meetings as a witness. Neither Nikolai Fedorovich, nor the lawyer (whom he invited on someone's recommendation), warned me about this call.
I was surprised by all this. What could I explain about the criminal case? Should I tell that about a month before the murder, I saw a strange man squatting on the stairs of a multi-storey office building?
I was asked questions: did the arbitration really take place? My role? was the head of the opposing side present at the arbitration proceedings (he sat in the dock with several other figures)?
In the dock, if my memory serves me correctly, there was also a guy who directly wielded a pistol in the house of Nikolai Fedorovich. It seems that he was tormented by terrible dreams: some people came to him in a dream. He himself was an athlete (a motorcyclist?) who, by coincidence, fired shots at someone's request for a moderate amount of money.
The head of the opposite side asked me a question, I don't remember exactly which one. Something like: "did he threaten (personally) to anyone during the arbitration proceedings?" (or something like that).
Perhaps I replied that I had not heard any threats from him.
He nodded his head in satisfaction (he looked very ill).
The question of the strange man on the squat was not asked. And where would such a question come from?
After that, I did not attend the court hearings on the criminal case.
I don't remember how the criminal trial ended. It seems that the leader of the opposite side was acquitted, as there were missing links in the chain of evidence.
The arbitration process continued, and, as a result, ended to the benefit of Nikolai Fedorovich.
One of the Russian classical writers is credited with the words: "We are lazy and we are not curious people." If Alexander Pushkin said these words, then most likely he did not mean himself personally.
May 18, 2024, 22:32
Translation from Russian into English: May 19, 2024 00:16
Владимир Владимирович Залесский ' Человек на корточках. История из юридической практики '.
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