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As Odr Vaitkevičienė, a Kaunas County LSC representative, reported to lrytas.lt on Tuesday around 4 pm 28 min. A message has been received that a drunk driver is driving on the A1 road. Police patrols were dispatched to verify this information.
When the Mercedes-Benz car stopped in Grabiciškės, near Kaunas, the information was confirmed. The driver (born 1964) was set at 1.84 avg. drunkenness.
According to the Delfi portal, the car was driven by Supreme Court judge Arvydas Daugėla.
According to O.Vaitkevičienė, since the suspended driver has legal immunity, he was not detained. For the same reason, no pre-trial investigation was launched. All the collected material has been delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office, which will have to take new measures.
The Council of Judges subsequently announced that a judge’s powers would be suspended and a decision would be made on his removal, writes LRT.lt.
The leadership of the Council of Judges immediately informed the institution of the President of the Republic of Lithuania about this fact, according to the LAT report.
In accordance with the Constitution and the Law of Courts, the President of the Republic adopts a decree to ask the Council of Judges for advice on the removal of a judge. The powers of a judge are suspended until a decision is made to remove the judge.
As indicated in the Portal of the Judicial Administration teismai.lt, Judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania Arvydas Daugėla (born 1964) at Vilnius University in 1989. He acquired a law degree. From 1989 August to 1992 In April he was an investigator in the Investigation Division of the Klaipėda City Police Chief Commissariat. 1992 he became a judge in April and until 1996. In January, he served as a judge at the Klaipėda City District Court. 1996 In January 1998 he became a judge of the Klaipėda Regional Court, in July 1998 he became Chairman of the Criminal Cases Division of the Klaipėda Regional Court.
From 2010 June to June 2015 and from 2015 September to 2019 In June, A. Daugėla was the president of this court. He was also a member of the Judicial Ethics and Discipline Commission for eight years.
In 2019, A. Daugėla became a judge of the Supreme Court. in June.
