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The AP reports that Miladin Kovacevic has been arrested in Belgrade today. Kovacevic was involved in a beating at Binghamton University that left a fellow student brutally beaten. Though charged, Kovacevic managed to flee U.S. with the help of the Serbian vice consul gneral, who posted his $100,000 cash bail and provided an emergency passport. Which then caused tense relations between the U.S. and Serbia, as the victim, Brooklyn resident Bryan Steinhauer, remained in a coma and Kovacevic made plans to join a Serbian basketball club. Kovacevic, who has maintained his innocence, had explained his escape, "My client told me that he did not flee to hide from justice, but because he doesn't believe in the American justice system." It's unclear what charges he'd being held on; the former vice consul has also been arrested.
Arrested: Serb Wanted in Upstate Beating
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What he did was wrong but I don't understand why U.S. is fighting so hard for him when we have many managers flee the country with stolen money and nothing is done. Too much time and focus on this guy.
I wish they went after Osama bin Laden as they did for this guy.
Money is just money. It can be replaced in most cases. This guy nearly killed someone. You might as well ask why the swindlers will be home-free in seven years yet there's no statute of limitations on murder.
How can he not have faith in the justice system? All he needs is to get Francesco DeFlaviis on his jury. Yeah, "it must have been an accident."
money can be replaced? This is why we are in this economic crisis. I talking about all this managers that set up bogus hedge funds with fake performances and a lot of them fled overseas and no one goes after them.
i just never seen the govt get so involved in extraditing someone. They should have done this with Osama bin Laden. Anyhow, Francesco DeFlavilis was biased. I bet his everyone hates this loser.
#8, this is not racist but I do become annoy when one person gets special treatment. What this basketball player did was dead wrong and should be punished. But I never seen so much resources and time spend on obtaining justice for one person. So many people are ignored and the gov't looks away when it chooses. Justice should be for all and govt should not pick and chose who you want to defend.
yeah, the thing about the American justice system that he fears is that you generally can't break someone's cheekbones and shatter their skull, leaving them in critical condition simply because you think they were checking out your girlfriend at the bar one night.
He's seen out bars, let him check out our prison system.
As punishment, Amputate this guy legs and force him to play basketball against Midgets
"My client told me that he did not flee to hide from justice, but because he doesn't believe in the American justice system [anymore]." So when he was here he loved his freedoms and then was bailed out on a $100,000 bail (which NYS now gets to keep) and fled the US— his statement is/was an addmission of guilt.
Any time a scumbag gets his just desserts is fine by me, no matter how it happens. This guy comes here, enjoys his freedoms, takes advantage of getting an education and then breaks the law and disregards the criminal justice system when it doesn't serve him anymore.
I really don't understand why these internet losers are so interested in the Jew angle. This is a foreign jock who
a) Probably was on campus solely for his athletic abilities.
b) Beat the shit out of somebody over a girl, and put him in a coma.
c) Jumped bail
d) Did so with the assistance of some weasel at the Serbian embassy.
So, you are saying, this is OK? You are annoyed that it got more media attention than some other random fugitive story (since, you know, you are all experts on extradition and shit)? Fuck you.
[8] The government always pushes hard on extradition. This case just gets more press, that's all. Doesn't mean they're working extra hard on it.
Somehow, I get the feeling that if it were one of your relatives or close friends in that hospital bed, you'd be screaming for the bastard's head on a platter and saying hang the cost, whatever it takes and whatever it costs is okay by you. Money managers are hardly the main or even major cause for the current crisis and I don't know why you're so fixated on them. There are so many larger contributing factors, including irresponsible subprime lending, even more irresponsible borrowers, an extremely expensive war that didn't have to happen, etc.
At least the victim is finally out of his coma, but who knows how much of a recovery he will ever make.
@handsomedevil
Well said...
Did anybody else notice the ironic picture of a downstate beating on the hockey rink under this article?
Hmmm plenty of hateful comments posted earlier seem to have been removed.
This was all about the Serbian Government. Last spring they were riding high on a nationalistic wave fed by a foolish belief that Vladimir Putin was a counterbalance to the west and its demands for basic justice with these garbage rogues. Now, Russia is on its knees with an economy in ruins and suddenly, Serbia relents on this bastard. Hopefully we can keep him safe from his rotten family and friends...in a prison cell for the rest of his young adulthood.