Lawyer Damir Lekić announced that he learned only at the hearing that his request for the exemption of the head of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica was rejected.
He received this information from the president of the council when scheduling a new date for the trial in the case against Dražen Vojvodić and Novica Đikanović, accused of aggravated murder in connection with illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances.
"Today, at eight o'clock, the hearing of the main trial in the case against the defendants Vojvodić and Đikanović was postponed. Đikanović, due to the absence of a member of the judge panel, Nada Rabrenović, who is on sick leave due to a worse health condition. appointment for the trial of the parties, I asked the president of the council if the supreme state prosecutor had decided on my request for the exemption of the head of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, to which he replied that he had and that had happened before, and I told him that the illegal and bad practice of the state of the prosecutor's office is repeated again, because again, as in the case when I submitted a request for the disqualification of the acting state prosecutor, it was repeated that to me, as the defense attorney who submitted the request for disqualification, the decision on that request was not delivered until the hearing of the main trial, and that such action from several aspects completely illegal and puts the defense in a disadvantageous position, because it has the right to receive a written copy of that decision in the original," Lekić said.
He explained that after that the president of the council informed him that he would receive from the court a photocopy of the written version of the decision that was delivered to the court.
"This behavior of the state prosecutor's office is completely worrisome, and one can get the impression that it is acting this way not by accident, and this is not only when one takes into account the way of delivery of their decisions, but also the content of this decision, a photocopy of which was handed to me today at the hearing by the court , which will be discussed more at the next hearing of the main trial," Lekić said.
Vojvodić and Đikanović are accused of the brutal murder of Vidak Vujović.
The indictment presented that on March 31, 03, in the town of Šteke, in Podgorica, they killed 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 M2023" 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 Vojvodic 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 57, 12, the defendant Đikanović Novica, in his family home, in Farmaci, Podgorica, kept seven pieces of pistol ammunition without the approval of the competent authority.
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