“The Regional Court assessed the facts correctly,” stated the chairman of the Board of Appeal Michal Hodoušek.
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In a somewhat extensive appeal, Štíbr’s lawyer Milan Vraspír questioned basically all the conclusions of the court of first instance as well as the conclusions of the experts. For example, Vraspír emphasized that Štíbr did not carry a bullet in the car, that he found out from several attempts with his client that it was not possible to break the car window in an incriminated way, and also that Štíbr was not at the scene and driving the car. This, moreover, was testified by two witnesses at the appeal proceedings.
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“We believe that no evidence has been presented here to prove that the act happened,” Vraspir concluded. “There is not a single direct piece of evidence against the defendant,” he added, proposing that the Štíbr court be acquitted.
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Miroslav Štíbr convicted of attempted grievous bodily harm
Photo: Milan Malíček, Právo
“As far as any thoughts or experiments with the ball are concerned, I state that the conditions that existed during the ride will never be imposed,” Hodoušek rejected the argument of the experiments made by the defense.
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Two years ago, Štíbr drove near Prague in heavy traffic on a Volkswagen road where a family with two young sons was driving. This forced the release of the left lane, even though both lanes were full.
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When the driver of the Volkswagen did not dodge Štíbr, he passed him from the right at a speed of about ninety kilometers and threw a glass ball into the passenger window of the Volkswagen to take revenge for not releasing the left lane. He broke a window and the glass cut the woman in the passenger seat and her six-year-old son, who was sitting behind her.
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The woman made a note of the number Scorpio had in the car and called him. According to her, at first he defended himself, saying that he didn’t know anything, that it must have been one of his employees. Then he allegedly came up with the theory that it was probably a reflected stone. When he found out that the victims had a glass ball in their hand, he allegedly told them that he had received the ball from his son and that he was calming down with it in the car. The woman also testified that Štíbr should have offered her 10 to 20 thousand crowns when she withdrew her resignation.
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From the beginning, Štíbr refused any guilt, in the preparatory proceedings and at the main trial he refused to testify. “I said from the beginning that I did not drive, that I was completely different,” he said only at the end of the main trial in the summer.
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Štíbr has been punished in the past for throwing a stone at a moving police car. Five years ago, he attacked the driver of a van with his fists, whose ride did not suit him. In addition, he poured about two liters of diesel instead of a passenger seat.
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