Today in the High Court in Podgorica, lawyer Damir Lekić requested the disqualification of the head of the High State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, Lepa Medenica, as a result of which the trial of the defendants Dražen P. Vojvodić and Novica G. Đikanović, accused of the brutal murder of Vidak Vujović, was postponed.
The president of the panel, Judge Veljko Radovanović, today informed lawyer Lekić at the hearing of the main trial that Medenica rejected as unfounded his request for exemption from proceedings in this case of state prosecutor Ana Radović, which he submitted on September 9, at the previous main trial.
"Until today, by the head of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office, I have not received a written dispatch of that decision, as recommended by mail, and as it is normally sent. "When I was informed by the court, I asked to be allowed to have a brief look at the contents of that decision, which the court allowed me to do," said Lekić.
He adds that he immediately noticed that it was a typical solution, which, in his opinion, does not contain any valid reason to reject his proposal for exemption. "And not only no valid reason, but no reason at all that led the manager to reject this request as unfounded, but only a mere citation of legal provisions without going into the essence of the state of affairs presented in the submitted request".
Then he submitted a request to the court to remove the head of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, as he said, for two reasons.
"The first reason is that she behaved in this way according to the submitted request for exemption from which institute, due to such actions, the prosecution and the courts unfortunately created a dead letter on a paper that serves no purpose. They just created a mechanism to protect their subordinate prosecutors and judges, thus giving them support in illegal behavior and work without any restraint. Which is neither the essence nor the purpose of that institute, but to use it to remove and prevent even the slightest suspicion of the existence of bias to the detriment of the defendant in acting state prosecutors and judges. The second reason is that when the manager was deciding on this submitted request, and earlier, she had the opportunity to familiarize herself with the contents of the case files when she had the opportunity to undoubtedly notice the notorious fact that they contain evidence that was not obtained in accordance with the law. Although it is her duty, she did not take any action to ensure that these legally invalid evidences are not used in the proceedings, i.e. that they are excluded as such from the case file, in which way she herself supported the illegal actions of the state prosecutor against whom she had previously her to apply for an exemption. In this way, by her conscious inaction and failure to act, and by providing unrelenting support to the subordinate state prosecutor, whose work she is obliged to control by law, and in whose work major illegalities are observed, she herself consciously expressed a greater degree of bias to the detriment of the defendant. For these reasons, I am asking for her exemption," said Lekić in explaining the request for exemption.
The indictment stated that on March 31, 2023, in Šteke, Podgorica, the defendants killed Vidak Vujović in an insidious and cruel manner, in a way that, according to a previous agreement, they lured the injured party to an uninhabited part of the Šteke settlement, to an inaccessible place . So that the defendant Vojvodić Dražen, using their previous acquaintance, drove him to the scene in a "VW Golf V" vehicle, and when the victim got out of the vehicle, he fired at least four projectiles from a "CZ M57" pistol in the same direction. of which he was hit by four projectiles. And because between the four projectiles fired, the injured Vujović Vidak was alive and told the defendant "don't", during which time he suffered severe suffering and severe pain, which the defendant Vojvodić did not do, but continued to fire projectiles at the injured party. During that time, the defendant Đikanović Novica was on the spot and observed everything, after which the defendant Vojvodić fired a projectile that caused fatal injuries to the victim, resulting in his death. After that, together with the defendant Đikanović, he poured gasoline and set fire to the lifeless body of the injured Vujović Vidak, and then they left the scene together. On April 12, 04, the defendant Đikanović Novica, in his family home, in Farmaci, Podgorica, kept seven pieces of pistol ammunition without the approval of the competent authority. The defendant Vojvodić committed the criminal offense of aggravated murder under Article 2023 paragraph 144 point I in connection with Article 1 paragraph 23 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro in conjunction with the criminal offense of illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances under Article 2 paragraph 403 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro, and the defendant Đikanović the crime of aggravated murder from Article 1 paragraph 144 point 1 in connection with Article 1 paragraph 23 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro and the criminal offense of illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances from Article 2 paragraph 403 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro.
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