Two and a half hours of stormy trial, and the defendant and the witness - two judges of the High Court in Bijelo Polje. The accused judge Dragan Mrdak claims that he did not falsify the guilty verdict in April and, without the knowledge of two colleagues from the panel, changed it to a new one, which allegedly triggered the statute of limitations.
On the other hand, his colleague Ivan Adamović says that the council has never made such a decision. That's why the court decided to confront them.
The question is how the statute of limitations could have started in the first place, because the criminal offense of abuse of position does not have a statute of limitations.
On the other hand, Adamović claims that the president of the court taught them what to do when the Special Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation.
Mrdak's lawyer says that it is possible to talk about his disciplinary responsibility here, but not his criminal responsibility.
And in the courtroom, there is controversy as to whether members of the council even consider case files when deciding on appeals against a verdict. Adamović says that the judges trust each other.
Mrdak's recorder, Sonja Marković, is also on the dock, who is accused of erasing the announced decision with a corrector on the judge's order and writing a decision about the statute of limitations. Marković also denied guilt. In the continuation of the trial, the third member of the panel, judge Dragan Dašić, will be heard.
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