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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtCourt made this decision based on the material evidence. Namely, thefact is that Attorney Dragutin Stanković’s presence was noted twice in therecord from the interrogation and that he personally signed that same daya note proving that he received the Investigation and Detention Ordersagainst Cvjetan Saša (it is determined without any doubt since is was alsoconfirmed by the Court Reporter’s statement) and the Defence Attorneyreceived a fee from the Court budget for being the ex officio Attorney forCvjetan Saša, which was also registered in the documents.After the Court overruled the proposal for the extraction of Cvjetan Saša’sstatement by which he admitted the commission of this crime, CvjetanSaša made an incident, started insulting the Judge, kicking the Judge deskand the door in the courtroom. Because of this, the Trial Panel was forcedto remove him from the main hearing session.Verification of VerdictThe Republic of Serbia Supreme Court verified on 22 December 2005the Belgrade District Court’s verdict handed down on 17 March 2005, bywhich the trial of Cvjetan Saša ended, after numerous irregularities andomissions made by the judicial institutions, with a just verdict. It is importantto underline that Judge Biljana Sinanović administered the trial in ahighly professional, expert, and objective manner. The surviving childrenand other Albanian witnesses made a great, but very worthy, effort to helpthe Court determine the truth and assess the justice.359