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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtpear during this time. When we finished the interrogation of defendantCvjetan, the investigative judge left the prison building without telling meanything. Two prison guards previously took defendant Cvjetan away. Ithink that Judge Bajović was the first to leave the room, then these guystook Cvjetan away, and then these two persons in civilian clothes left theroom. I stayed in the room. Judge Bajović returned after five to ten minutes.Attorney Šubaranović Živorad came right after him and I assumed thejudge went to look for a defence attorney for Demirović since the prosecutorpreviously told the judge that the defendants must have attorneys becausethe punishment for this crime can exceed 20 years of imprisonment.So, I assumed that since Stanković did not show up, at least one of the defendantsshould have a defence counsellor. After this, Demirović was alsobrought in and Judge Bajović interrogated him, as well, but in the presenceof attorney Šubaranović. Nobody else attended this interrogation.When the interrogation was over, Judge Bajović, Attorney Šubaranović, andI went to Chief orević’s office again. We stayed there for a short time andŠubaranović left before us. Judge Bajović and I left the building togetherand went to the court building. This was maybe around 14:30 or 15:00. Assoon as we arrived at the building, we went to Miroslav Nikolić’s office. Hewas in his office at this time. He asked Judge Bajović how it was and the districtprosecutor asked the judge, ‘Friend, who did you take as the defenceattorney?’ The judge replied that Guta promised to come, but he did notshow up until the end of Cvjetan’s interrogation. He said that the boy stilladmitted everything and that he found Šuba for Demirović. Šuba is attorneyŠubaranović’s nickname.The prosecutor told the judge that he should not have done that becausethe defendant was supposed to have a defence counsellor. I think this wasall we talked about at the moment in District Prosecutor Nikolić’s office. Severaldays later I met with Prosecutor Nikolić who came to the judge’s office.Then I told the prosecutor that I found something strange and I told him,‘Many things happened in this prison’. He asked me what happened andI said that two persons in civilian clothes attended the interrogation and Ifound this strange because until then it was the practice that nobody elseattended the interrogation of the defendants. Prosecutor only shruggedhis shoulders and asked me what these people looked like. I told him thatI did not know because they were standing quite far away from me. Judge249