In my practice I quite often decline a number of criminal cases, on a wide variety of grounds; most often, of course, this depends on the "character" of the suspect or accused himself. However, when I was approached with this case, I did not need to study the circumstances for long before agreeing.
...I was approached by citizen "S.", who had been brought in as a suspect in a criminal case under Part 3 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic rules and rules for operating vehicles, resulting through negligence in the death of a person). At first glance, a quite ordinary case: on 27 September 2019 the suspect, an entirely decent person and a doctor by profession, was driving with his family along a federal highway, but at some point, without himself understanding how, he ended up in the oncoming lane, as a result of which a road traffic accident occurred, for which "S." admits guilt. The citizen injured in the accident, "G.", having suffered grievous bodily injuries, was taken to the district hospital, where he was admitted to the trauma ward. My client visited the injured man the same day, talked with him and received assurances from the trauma ward doctors that there was no danger to the life of "G.".
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During the night of 29 September 2019, citizen "G." was urgently transferred to intensive care, but he could not be saved...
...From the very first days of working on this case, we put numerous questions to the investigation with one single aim: to establish how and why the person injured in the accident, who had been delivered to hospital in time, who had talked with my client without any difficulty on 27.09, and who had spent a full day under doctors' supervision, died!
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The client's innocence has been proven.