For eight months now, there has been no legally binding decision whether the bail offered by Miloš Medenica is rejected or accepted, which confirms our thesis that he is still in custody only because he is the son of Vesna Medenica.
This is what his defense attorney, lawyer Stefan Jovanović, told Vijesti, commenting on the decision of the Appellate Court, whose panel accepted their appeal yesterday and sent the case back to the High Court for re-decision.
He accused the High Court and the Appellate Court of playing ping-pong with that proposal, and announced that he would take other steps "in relation to other state bodies". Jovanović reminded that they submitted the initial proposal for bail in February.
"Three times the judge of the High Court, Nada Rabrenović, refused bail, i.e. the defense's proposal for bail. Three times the Court of Appeal accepted the appeal of the defense in relation to those decisions and pointed out to the judge what the omissions were, absolutely not once did the judge consider the reasons for the cancellation. not once, after the appeal of the defense was adopted in the next decision, did it apply what the Court of Appeal pointed out, which shows only one thing, and that is that the judge simply does not want to adopt bail and that denial, so to call it, it simply has no basis or foundation in the law," said Jovanović.
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He claims that it is a personal decision based on motives that are not legal.
"And the foundation for such a determination is precisely in the decisions of the Appellate Court, which constantly, in three decisions, on three occasions points out what are the mistakes and what are the flaws in the decisions of judge Nada Rabrenović. However, she persistently refuses to correct those flaws, those mistakes It is doubtful that it is ignorance, but it is a question of the judge of the High Court in Podgorica. It is obvious that due to the pressure of the public and the current social climate, the defense will consider some other steps in relation to some other state authorities, because it is obvious that no matter how many times the Appellate Court approves the appeal, that judge Nada Rabrenović will simply not accept bail, but will refuse it for the same reasons that have already been made known a couple of times that cannot be legally prescribed reasons for refusing bail," he said.
Medenica's defense attorney pointed out that he does not understand the Court of Appeal either, that is, he does not understand why they do not make a decision.
"Instead of changing such a decision, they persistently accept the appeal and send it back to the trial court for a new decision, even though the Appellate Court also sees that that judge simply does not want, I say again, without any legal basis, to comply with the defense's proposal, that is, to enable the adoption of bail. even though the Constitutional Court has on two occasions in its decisions indicated that in the specific case of the accused Miloš Medenicid, custody is not necessary, but that it is sufficient to act as an alternative measure... This kind of behavior, this ping-pong game, that is, the table tennis game between the High Court and the Appellate Court is a classic torture of a detained person and confirmation of the defense's thesis that Miloš Medenica is in custody only because he is the son of Vesna Medenica and that there is absolutely no other reason, especially provided by law," said Jovanović.
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