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Found it- Bohdan Vitvitsky
Interesting article he wrote about an example of the change in Russian judicial system just prior to Bolshevik destruction of it.
https://archive.is/wip/5NMmn
"Remarkably, less than five years prior to the Bolsheviks’ destruction of the then existing legal system, that system had produced a rather surprising result in a trial that had taken place in Kiev, then a city in the Russian Empire. In 1911, someone murdered a young Ukrainian boy in Kiev. The Czarist authorities not only falsely accused a Jewish man named Mendel Beilis of this brutal crime but also claimed that it had been committed by Beilis supposedly in connection with a Jewish ritual whose performance required human blood.
The 6-week trial took place in 1913 and was a cause célèbre. The Czar received regular updates; Beilis had an international team of defense lawyers; and the trial was attended by the international press. At the end, and to the astonishment of many—given the strongly anti-Semitic sentiment then prevailing in Czarist Russia—Beilis was judged not guilty. "