Convicted of COVID-19 sick of Raseini: visited a friend, went fishing and cultivated mushrooms



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The court ordered Valdas U. to register with the Employment Service for the entire period of execution of the sentence and not to leave the city or district of his permanent residence without the permission of the institution executing the sentence.

“The defendants did not observe self-isolation, they visited public places and therefore systematically endangered other people to contract a particularly dangerous infectious disease,” says Vaiva Bėčienė, judge of the Raseiniai Chamber of the Šiauliai District Court , which adopted the criminal order. “Aware of the dangers of the disease and the need to avoid contact with others, in addition to being warned by a mother with whom she was in solitary confinement to follow the rules of self-isolation, she deliberately violated this requirement.”

The defendant agreed to close the case with a judicial criminal order, as well as the type of punishment (restriction of freedom) proposed by the prosecutor and its amount.

The court determined that Valdas U., a resident of the Raseiniai district, in 2020. September 26 COVID-19 disease was detected. The family doctor presented the man with the order of the Minister of Health and explained about self-isolation. On October 4, at an unspecified time during the preliminary investigation, Valdas U. left the place of residence and did not observe self-isolation when communicating with a friend. October 5 and 9 Again he left home and visited public places.

Defendant Valdas U. admitted his guilt in full. He explained that he felt bad for about four days. Then he thought that if you go looking for mushrooms in the forest near your house, fishing in the Dubysa river near your house, nothing will happen.

The man indicated that in both cases he did not agree with the people, so he thought that he was not behaving very badly. He also owed the acquaintance money, so he went and paid the debt. He was unable to say the exact dates he left the house and did not observe self-isolation, did not record them, and does not remember them.

Once when he was not at home, the police officers had come to see how he was being isolated and could not find him at home, his mother told him. However, for reasons he could not explain, he remained without self-isolation and was re-examined by police officers..

The court clarifies The defendant, who does not agree to the imposition of a custodial sentence by judicial criminal order, has the right to submit an application to the Raseiniai Chamber of the Šiauliai District Court within 14 days from the date of receipt of the this document, requiring the holding of a judicial hearing. An effective criminal court order cannot be appealed.



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