Banic claimed in the constitutional complaint that the Supreme Court's ruling violated her constitutional right to a fair and lawful trial and equality before the law. She requested that the Constitutional Court uphold her complaint, quash the verdict and refer the case back to the Supreme Court for reconsideration.
"Zorana Banic was convicted of war crimes as a co-perpetrator and the verdict gives no description of an act that could lead to such a conclusion," Susak told reporters, adding that he had submitted the complaint two days ago.
Susak said that the verdict was based on controversial statements by witnesses who at the time of the crimes were children or who changed their statements during the trial.
Banic asked the Constitutional Court to exclude judges Vice Vukojevic and Milan Vukovic when deciding on her complaint, saying that the two judges were biased. She quoted Vukovic as saying while he was a Supreme Court judge that Croats could not have committed war crimes because they were fighting a defensive war.
Banic was found guilty by the Zadar County Court of participating in and co-perpetrating war crimes against civilians in the village of Skabrnja on November 18, 1991. Forty-three civilians were killed in this village in the Zadar hinterland.
Banic is currently in the Zagreb District Prison awaiting a decision on where she would serve her sentence.