Transfer of jurisdiction moot due to prior resolution of underlying case

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the petition for the transfer (strămutare) of the case, resulting in a final and non-appealable decision in favor of the opposing party and the public prosecutor. The dispute concerned a procedural request to reassign Case No. 973/220/2010 from the Deva Court to another jurisdiction, filed by three petitioners. The court found that the transfer procedure had been legally fulfilled and that the request had become moot (lacking object) because the underlying case had already been adjudicated on January 9, 2012, prior to this hearing on January 19, 2012. The decisive legal basis was the procedural doctrine that a motion for transfer is dismissed as moot when the underlying civil proceedings have been concluded by a final judgment.