Совещательная комната

The Deliberation Room

B2 · Upper Intermediate · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An upper-intermediate legal thriller that never leaves one room. Eight jurors, three questions and three hours in which the law obliges them to try for unanimity. Seven hands go up straight away; a geography teacher who has never been inside a court says only that she isn't sure — and then remembers a tree in a photograph nobody else looked at properly.

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Characters

Nina Sergeyevna (Нина Сергеевна) — Did not raise her hand
Valery (Валерий) — The foreman
Juror number three (Номер третий) — The man in glasses
Juror number five (Номер пятый) — Twelve years on the ambulances

Vocabulary from this story

суд — court
судья — judge
прокурор — prosecutor
адвокат — defence lawyer
присяжный — juror
старшина — foreman
подсудимый — defendant
свидетель — witness
обвинение — prosecution
признание — confession
вердикт — verdict
деяние — act