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Sergey Shabanov

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Sergey Shabanov

Advocate — theft and robbery, Articles 158 and 161

Bar registration No. 73/979

Focus

Looks for where the classification and the evidence can be loosened before the first-instance court locks in the prosecution's version.

Property offences are decided by thresholds and by classification: the value of what was taken, whether entry was into a dwelling, whether force or the threat of it was used, whether several incidents form one continuing offence or several separate ones. Each of those moves the case between parts of the article and between articles.

Sergey works these cases on the detail — valuations that were never properly evidenced, identifications conducted in breach of procedure, and episodes attached to a defendant on nothing more than similarity of method.

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