Courts in Bosnia increasingly rely on guilt pleas to speed up trials secure verdicts but many victims groups feel justice is being sacrificed in the name of expediency.
After accepting a guilt admission agreement, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentences Zdravko Mihaljevic, a former member of the Maturice Special Purposes Squad with the Croatian Defence Council, HVO to six years in prison for crimes against civilians in Tulica village, near Kiseljak.
Critics charge State Prosecutors office with keeping hold of low-ranking cases that should go to lower courts - slowing the work of resolving Bosnias top war crimes by 2015 deadline.
Upholding appeals filed by the State Prosecution, the Appeals Chamber revoked the verdict of acquittal in the case of Zdravko Mihaljevic and ordered a retrial.
In 1993, civilians were massacred in the village of Tulice near Kiseljak. The Prosecution charges Zdravko Mihaljevic, also known as Pijuk, with this crime.