 The lawyer in the process was his uncle Stepan Shukhevych.Shukhevych was sentenced to three years in jail; however, because of the 1935 amnesty he was released from jail after spending half a year in the Bereza Kartuska Detention Camp and two years in prison.During the Warsaw process against the OUN (November 18, 1935 - January 13, 1936) Shukhevych was called as a witness.