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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubt“I have already answered that I have never seen or met attorney DragutinStanković and I have never had any contacts with him.”Defendant Dejan Demirović’s attorney asked whether the court has SašaCvjetan’s statement given to the police on 28 March 1999.The court said that since it was the end of the working day, it could not inspectthe existence of that information because the case file has severalhundreds of pages.The state prosecutor is protesting having the investigative judge and thecourt reporter examined as witnesses, and leaves it to the court to decidewhether or not to adduce this evidence.He also believes that there is no possibility in this phase of the proceedingsfor defendant Saša Cvjetan to be provisionally released and, at the end, heunderlines that at the time when the event took place, the Decree on theCourts and Prosecution’s Actions in Times of War was applicable.Dejan Demirović’s defence counsellor is asking the court to state whetheror not there are court reporters’ signatures on the records from the interrogationof defendants Cvjetan and Demirović, as well as on the record from18 July 2001 from the interrogation of Cvjetan.The court determines that on the records from the interrogations of Cvjetanand Demirović from 24 May 1999 there are no signatures of the court reporterRadica Marinković, and on the first page of the original record from18 July 2001 is blank, so it is not possible to determine who acted in thecapacity of a court reporter. At the end of this record, at the place designatedfor the seal, there is no remark noting who the court reporter was.The court reporter during the interrogation on 24 May 1999 was RadicaMarinković.Exactly because of the previously mentioned omissions, defendants Cvjetanand Demirović’s defence counsels propose that the investigating judge andthe court reporter be interrogated as witnesses.Defendant Cvjetan’s counsellors, ore Kalanj and Goran Rodić, and defendantDemirović’s counsellor are asking the court to examine the courtreporter Radica Marinković as a witness in the probative procedure planned75