The Appellate Court ordered a retrial before a new panel of judges which Jurisic's lawyer Djordje Dozet interpreted on Monday as proof that the first trial of his client was not fair.
Appellate Court judge Sinisa Vazic said today that Jurisic would be released from custody and that he could go home to Bosnia and Herzegovina but that he was obliged to respond to the Belgrade court's summons for retrial.
Jurisic was arrested in Belgrade on 14 May 2007 on an international warrant. His trial began before the Belgrade District Court on 22 February 2008.
On 28 September 2009 the district court sentenced him to 12 years in prison for having ordered an attack on retreating JNA soldiers at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia. According to this verdict, at least 51 people were killed and 50 were wounded in that assault.
The guilty verdict outraged political parties in Bosnia, the Tuzla authorities, and associations of victims from the early 1990s war, who labelled the sentence as the continuation of Serbia's aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina.