> a victim was crawling the road at night

Is that verifiable? Because...

> In November 2019, Denis Pushkarev, maintainer of the popular core-js library, lost an appeal to overturn an 18-month prison sentence imposed for driving his motorcycle into two pedestrians, killing one of them.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_jai...

Unfortunately Russia judiciary system is far from ideal and fair but better to trust that system than to take his word as truth.