Closing arguments of the Prosecution and Defence before the Appellate Panel of the Section I for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the Marko Samardžija case have been scheduled for 15 October 2008 starting at 1:30p.m. in courtroom 6.

On 27 April 2007, the Appellate Panel of Section I for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) rendered a decision partially upholding the appeals filed by Marko Samardžija and his defence attorney, and revoking the Trial Panel’s verdict of 3 November 2006. This decision orders a retrial before the Appellate Panel.

The Trial Panel found Marko Samardžija guilty of Crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 26 years long term imprisonment as an accomplice (as the commander of the 3rd Company of the Sanica Battalion within the 17th Light Infantry Brigade of the Army of the so-called Srpska Republika BiH) in the July 1992 murder of numerous Bosniak male civilians from the Brkići and Balagića Brdo villages in the Municipality of Ključ.