Court of Appeal: Case files of accused Vesna Medenica administratively returned to lower court

It was announced that only after all persons who have the right to appeal by law receive the decision and file an appeal or the deadline for their appeal expires, will the conditions for the Court of Appeal to make a decision be met.

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The Court of Appeals has returned the case files of the accused Vesna Medenica to the lower court to eliminate the deficiency, the institution announced.

It is stated that the case files in the proceedings of the accused Vesna Medenica were submitted to the Court of Appeal on February 6, in order to decide on the appeal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) against the decision of the Higher Court in Podgorica, which rejected the proposal to order detention for Medenica and imposed supervision measures on her.

The Court of Appeals said that the judge rapporteur in charge of the case, who, in the preparation process for the panel session, determined that there was no evidence in the files about the delivery of the decision to attorney Zdravko Tomanović, the defense attorney of the accused Vesna Medenica, who has the right to appeal the part of the decision imposing supervision measures on her.

"For these reasons, the case files were returned to the lower court on the same day, Friday, February 6, to remedy the aforementioned deficiency," the statement said.

It is added that only after all persons who have the right to appeal under the law receive the decision and file an appeal, or the deadline for their appeal expires, will the conditions for the Court of Appeal to make a decision be met.

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