Zlatoust maniac refused to recover millions from ex-lawyer

The Court of Cassation upheld the refusal of Nikolai Mozglyakov, a life-long convicted Zlatoust maniac and pedophile, who asked to recover 2 million rubles from his former lawyer as moral damage. This follows on April 7 from the case file at the disposal of Izvestia.

Mozglyakov claimed that he had not received adequate protection — according to him, the lawyer had not appealed the verdict and had not coordinated a strategy with him. At the same time, according to the case file, the man admitted his guilt and did not express any intention to appeal the court's decision.

The maniac's lawyer stressed that he worked in accordance with the requirements of the law and discussed the legal position with his client in court.

On December 22, 2008, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced Nikolai Mozglyakov, accused of murdering two schoolgirls in the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region, to life imprisonment while serving his sentence in a special regime colony.

The bodies of two seventh-graders were found in the woods near the cemetery in Zlatoust on April 2, 2008. Traces of strangulation were found on the body of one of the girls, while the second had multiple stab wounds. The only surviving girl was found in the cemetery area with signs of rape, with slash wounds to her back, chest and neck.

The prosecutor of the Chelyabinsk region, Alexander Voitovich, said he was satisfied with the verdict. According to him, there will be no appeal. At first, Mozglyakov claimed that he did not remember what he was doing at the time of the crime, but then he began to cooperate with the investigation.

Later, on December 10, 2024, it became known that the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation did not consider Mozglyakov's complaint for a life term and returned it to the applicant. The reason for the return of the complaint was Article 401.17 of the CPC ("Inadmissibility of making repeated cassation complaints, submissions").

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