Word: okhotin
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...first part of Wednesday’s hearing, the prosecutor marshaled three witnesses in an attempt to portray Okhotin as having been uncooperative, evasive and generally suspicious after this transgression that Okhotin insisted was a mere oversight...
...testimony which Sonnenberg called “really, really polished,” the witnesses—two customs agents who first stopped Okhotin and a baggage handler whom they brought in at the time to observe—said he had refused to answer their questions in a straightforward manner or to hand over his declaration form until they had interrogated him for an extended period of time...
...point during the prosecutor’s questioning, the porter contradicted the agents’ testimony as to the specific room in which Okhotin had revealed the money and the forms stating its purpose. After a careful round of queries from Judge Yakovlev, the porter changed his answer to line up with that of his superiors...
...cross-examination and Okhotin’s own testimony, which comprised the hearing’s second half, the lawyers and the divinity student reiterated his case that four months of trouble had resulted from one single error—which, they said, would have been instantly avoided had Okhotin properly understood Sheremetyevo II’s corridor system...
Yakovlev, stone-faced for the first half of the proceedings, at first appeared disinclined to follow this line of argument. During the defense attorneys’ cross-examination, he swiftly cut off several questions which Okhotin said he thought were “key” to his case...