The court dismissed the third panel of jurors in the case of children's coach Kukushkin

The Nizhny Novgorod court dismissed the third panel of jurors in the case of children's hand-to-hand combat coach Nikolai Kukushkin, accused of intentionally causing serious harm to health with a knife, as well as the murder of guardsman Mikhail Rashoyan. This is stated in the documents reviewed by Izvestia.

The court's ruling indicates that the jury, according to media reports, was persuaded to make a certain decision.

"There was also non—procedural communication with participants in the trial and discussion of the circumstances of the case within the jury panel," the document says.

Lev Pavlov, the foreman of the board, said that he was related to an employee of the prosecutor's office.

The incident that led the Nizhny Novgorod jury to try Nikolai Kukushkin, a 33-year-old hand-to-hand combat coach, occurred on May 16, 2021. Then two companies collided on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street. On one side was Kukushkin and his comrade Grigory Artemenko, on the other — seven soldiers of the Russian Guard and one civilian, their comrade.

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Earlier, Izvestia had a video in which a man who looks like Pavlov tells his friend that he received the status of foreman of the jury on the initiative of his stepmother, Ekaterina Pavlova, ex—head of the department of state prosecutors of the criminal judicial department of the Prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to the young man, before the jury selection, employees of the prosecutor's office came to his office and set a goal for him — to persuade the panel to a guilty verdict.

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