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Judicial Avenger
He had to negotiate the murder with a policeman
An unprecedented trial of 32-year-old Anatoly Norkin began in Khabarovsk. The regional prosecutor's office accuses him of encroaching on the life of regional judge Vladimir Golovizin. To carry out his plan, the man even hired a contractor and promised him 5 thousand rubles for the work.Anatoly Norkin wanted to take revenge on the regional judge for his younger brother, whom Vladimir Golovizin sentenced to six years in prison for robbery. The younger Norkin, together with two accomplices, participated in an armed robbery of an apartment in the Kirovsky district of Khabarovsk in December 1999. When the police arrived on call, the raiders took three residents hostage. District prosecutor Vladimir Kharitonov entered into negotiations with the criminals and managed to persuade them to surrender. However, already leaving the apartment, one of the bandits wounded Mr. Kharitonov with a carbine.
The presiding judge at the trial was Vladimir Golovizin. Anatoly did not like the judge and decided to kill him. Norkin Sr. began searching for the perpetrator, but almost immediately this became known to the operatives, who sent a police officer as a killer.
At first, the Khabarovsk resident valued the life of the judge at 10 thousand rubles, but later agreed to only 5 thousand. Anatoly Norkin suggested hitting the judge with a car when he was heading to work in the morning, and even drew a plan for the victim’s movement from home to work. The diagram showed all the possible places where the judge could be waylaid. But the automobile version of the murder was rejected as too troublesome, and the killer himself had to come up with an acceptable method. He didn’t have to think long, however, since the person who ordered the crime was detained when handing over a deposit of 2.5 thousand rubles. Suspect Norkin refused to give evidence to the investigation. He is convinced that he was framed. However, the prosecutor's office has a different opinion. All conversations between the young man and the killer were recorded on audio tape. In addition, the decoy killer did not incite the murder, but only asked for money for the work.
The suspect's lawyer bases his defense on the fact that Anatoly Norkin really could have been framed. According to the defense, the intelligence service informant who reported the impending attempt on the life of the judge himself had problems with the law and was again involved in the case with Judge Golovizin. And it was he who suggested that Norkin order the murder of the judge. However, the defense itself believes that it will be very difficult to prove this, since Norkin not only agreed to the murder, but also planned it.
Despite the fact that the verdict is still far away, the case has caused a great resonance among the law enforcement agencies themselves. They believe that in this way a precedent has been created when a criminal case under “exotic” Art. 295 of the Criminal Code (attempt on persons administering justice) was brought to court with the maximum amount of evidence.