Regarding the first-instance verdict of 23.12.2025. The Cantonal Court in Tuzla announced that the accused Vejsil Halilović, on the basis of his guilty plea, was sentenced to 3 years in prison and a security measure banning him from driving a “B” category vehicle for 3 years due to the criminal offense of Serious criminal offenses against the safety of public traffic in connection with the criminal offense of Endangering public traffic due to intoxication.
˝The Council of the Cantonal Court in Tuzla rendered the above judgment on the basis of the Law on Criminal Procedure and the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on the indictment of the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of the Tuzla Canton, by which the named person was accused of the criminal offense of Serious criminal offense against the safety of public traffic from Article 336, paragraph 2 of the FBiH Criminal Code in connection with the criminal offense of Endangering public traffic due to intoxication from Article 333, paragraph 1 of the same Law. Therefore, although this criminal offense caused the death of one person, it is not a criminal offense of Murder, in which case stricter penalties and even long-term prison sentences are prescribed, they said.
They state that this court was guided by the previous judicial practice of the FBiH Supreme Court, which, in cases against defendants for criminal offenses against public traffic safety committed under similar circumstances, in which the defendants were sentenced to prison terms of one year to three years and six months, was guided by the previous judicial practice of the FBiH Supreme Court, in which the defendants were sentenced to prison terms of one year to three years and six months. some subjects and reduced.
They note that the judgment against the accused Vejsil Halilović is not final and that the parties have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court of FBiH within 15 days from the day of receipt of the copy of the judgment.
“Bearing in mind that the first-instance judgment, which would show which circumstances the court considered as mitigating or aggravating when passing it, has not yet been written, we are not able to provide more information at this time,” said the Cantonal Court in Tuzla.
The accused was found guilty on 05.08.2025. year, around 3:45 a.m., on the Tuzla-Sarajevo highway, near the “Omega” department store in Živinice, driving a passenger motor vehicle “VW Passat”, under the influence of alcohol and the narcotic drug amphetamine, although aware that he is not fit to drive and that he can endanger traffic and put people’s lives at risk, moving at twice the speed limit, he hit pedestrian Ajla Nuhanović (19) from Kalesija with his vehicle, as a result of which injured died on the spot.
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