{"id":19978,"date":"2023-09-25T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldn.org.ua\/?post_type=success-story&p=19978"},"modified":"2023-10-06T00:59:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T21:59:34","slug":"the-court-took-into-account-the-age-of-the-minor-and-mitigated-the-sentence","status":"publish","type":"success-story","link":"https:\/\/ldn.org.ua\/en\/success-story\/the-court-took-into-account-the-age-of-the-minor-and-mitigated-the-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"The court took into account the age of the minor and mitigated the sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A successful story from the practice of lawyers of the Vinnytsia-based <\/em><\/strong>NGO “Podillia Center for Human Rights”<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is about something other than how to help avoid punishment for a crime. The main point is that every citizen has the right to fair justice, including an individual approach to the case, especially when the offender is a minor student.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pavlo* is a tenth-grader at a school in the Vinnytsia oblast. This summer, he got into an unpleasant story: not having the right to drive a vehicle because he had not yet reached the age of majority, he got behind the wheel of his father’s car and decided to go around his native village. On one of the streets, the police stopped him and drew up a report on an administrative offense under Part 2 of Article 126 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses<\/a>**.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court of first instance found Pavlo guilty of committing this offense and imposed a fine of 200 non-taxable minimum incomes, i.e. UAH 3400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pavlo himself told This story to the lawyers of the Vinnytsia-based NGO “Podillia Center for Human Rights”. The guy asked the organization to provide him with legal assistance. In particular, he wanted to know whether the fine was pretty imposed on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After analyzing the court decision, lawyer Oleksandr Dovbysh concluded that, in this case, the court did not consider the mitigating circumstances and the offender’s age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oleksandr Dovbysh, a lawyer at the Podillia Center for Human Rights.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n