In the High Court in Podgorica, the trial of Nikola Bogojević continued, accused of murdering Branko Vučković with intent on September 25, 2019.
Before the panel of judge Vesna Kovačević, forensic medicine and ballistic experts prof. Dr. Miodrag Šoć and Milovan Mihailović.
Šoć said that he remains entirely with the auction minutes and expertise from November 14, 2019.
Answering the questions of lawyer Tomislav Dedić, the representative of the family, Šoć said that Vučković's death was caused by damage to the blood vessels, and that he was hit in the right lumbar part of the body.
He added that the handgun was located on the back right side of the body and slightly downwards.
At the main trial, the supplementary report of the ballistics expert was read.
Lawyer Zoran Piperović, the defense attorney for the defendant Bogojević, recalled that the defendant, presenting his defense, said among other things that he took out a magnum 357 revolver and pointed it at the lower part of his body and that he flinched when he fired the shots, one of which hit Vučković in the right groin .
Ballistic specialist Mihailović explained that the 357 ammunition has a very strong kinetic energy, so that when a shot is fired from a revolver, there is a strong recoil. He added that this happens especially with amateurs in the use of firearms. The defense attorney then asked how much deviation there could be.
"The deviation in shooting from the aiming point can be quite large, depending on the person using this weapon. It defines the physical ability to hold a weapon while shooting and that ability cannot be determined by an expert. I can't say exactly how much these deviations are. It is an individual characteristic of man. For amateurs, this deviation can be up to half a meter. The defendant was a little more than three meters away. That deviation of seven/eight degrees. I can't make a precise statement", said the expert in response to questions from the defense.
When asked by senior prosecutor Danka Ivanović Đerić, the ballistics expert said that these deviations can be in both directions, downwards and upwards.
"The gun can bounce both up and down," explained Mihailović.
When asked by the court, he stated that he could not define how big a deviation that was.
"I use this term as a descriptive category. This term does not exist in the profession", said the expert.
Bogojević said yesterday that he had never fired this revolver before.
In October 2020, he stated that the allegations in the indictment that he had committed serious murder were not correct, explaining that he did not intend to kill, but to warn Vučković, because he had harassed and threatened him.
"I do not feel guilty of capital murder. I had no intention of killing him. I fired two shots - missed him with one, and hit him in the leg, in the thigh with the other," he said then.
In the indictment, however, it is written that he deliberately killed Vučković in an insidious manner, waiting for him hidden behind a container. It is said that he approached him unnoticed from behind and shot...
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