This was said for Glas Srpska by lawyer Goran Bubić, the lawyer of the president of the smaller BiH. entity of RS Milorad Dodik, and commenting on the last decision of this court to move the hearing from December 25 to December 30.
– In this way, my client was denied the right to life and treatment, which is clearly defined by the European Convention. Also, he was denied the right to defend himself. They are obviously in a hurry to condemn President Dodik as soon as possible, without taking into account his health. That’s why I recently stated that, it seems, the goal is not only to condemn him, but also to bury him – Bubić believes.
He also says that he was verbally informed by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina that a new hearing is scheduled for December 30 and that, as explained to him, a status conference and the main hearing will be held then. He states that it is not clear to him what will then be the subject of the mentioned status conference. He assumes that there may be talk of expert examination of medical documentation.
– Status conferences, by the way, are not intended to be organized and held during the trial, but only at the beginning, when the course of the court proceedings is planned, so we can find out, for example, how much evidence the prosecution or the defense will present and how much time they need to something like that. Given that the trial is already advanced, I really don’t see the purpose of holding it – says Bubić.
When asked what he expects from the request for the exemption of the court expert, Dr. Haris Vranić, who contested the allegations from the discharge list and presented his medical evaluations, and whether an international expert opinion will be requested, Bubić states that Article 269 of the Criminal Procedure Act states that the expert opinion can be carried out by the court, but also by the parties in the proceedings, i.e. the prosecution and the defense.
– The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will decide on our request to reject Vranić’s expert testimony. If he does that, he can appoint a new expert. If he also works like Vranić, to ignore the real situation, the defense will then hire its own. Those are some procedural possibilities, but we’ll see what happens in the end. What Vranić did is really unacceptable. In his report, he has some pictures of the stomach and esophagus taken from the Internet, along with superficial and arbitrary assessments of President Dodik’s medical condition that have nothing to do with the actual health condition. It is beyond any ethical norms. He bases his position on the document on Dodik’s admission to the hospital. When the dismissal letter arrived, he decided to ignore it, saying that he would stand by his position. To me, it all looks like bad direction – said Bubić.
The hearing for Milorad Dodik, which was scheduled for December 25, was postponed to Monday due to the “objective impossibility of his presence”.
It was also announced that this court received the medical documentation, but not what their position is regarding the defense’s request to disqualify the court expert Haris Vranić.
Dodik and the acting director of the Official Gazette of the RS, Miloš Lukić, are on trial for disobeying the decisions of High Representative Christian Schmidt.
(Vijesti.ba)
