{"id":1512,"date":"2022-07-28T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marger.lt\/team\/mindaugas-duda\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T08:41:08","slug":"mindaugas-duda","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/marger.lt\/en\/team\/mindaugas-duda\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindaugas D\u016bda"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","team_category":[34],"class_list":["post-1512","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry","team_category-partners"],"acf":{"picture":1114,"position":"Partner, Attorney at Law","email":"mindaugas.duda@marger.lt ","tel_number":"","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mindaugas-d%C5%ABda-51387a143\/ ","career":[{"title":"Practice Areas","content_type":"regular","content":"Dispute Resolution, Representation in Court, and Arbitration<\/span><\/a>\r\n\r\nCriminal Law and Administrative Offenses<\/span> <\/a>","content_extended":null},{"title":"Professional Highlights","content_type":"title_text","content":"S\u0117kmingai apginti klient\u0117s \u2013 Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausyb\u0117s sekretoriato vadov\u0117s \u2013 interesai. Klient\u0117 kaltinta piktnaud\u017eiavimu tarnyba, vyriausyb\u0117s turto i\u0161\u0161vaistymu, nusikalstamu b\u016bdu gauto turto legalizavimu, dokument\u0173 klastojimu, ta\u010diau buvo i\u0161teisinta pagal visus jai inkriminuotus kaltinimus.","content_extended":[{"link":{"title":"2023 - Successfully defended the interests of a former Luki\u0161k\u0117s detention center-prison officer accused of possible bribery","url":"#","target":""},"text":"The official was accused of bribery and illegal distribution of narcotics.\r\nThe court of first instance has acquitted Marger's client of all charges against him, as it was not proven that he was involved in the criminal acts charged against him. The Court of Appeal rejected the prosecutor's appeal and upheld the acquittal of Marger's client.\r\nThe prosecutor appealed this decision of the Court of Appeal of Lithuania to the Supreme Court of Lithuania in the cassation procedure, but the Supreme Court of Lithuania also rejected the prosecutor's appeal. The accusations against Marger's client were found to be unfounded, and the defense costs incurred by the client were also awarded to the client."},{"link":{"title":"2022 \u2013 Successfully defended the interests of a client in a case of domestic violence. ","url":"#","target":""},"text":"The client who experienced domestic violence withstood a long marathon of pre-trial investigation and trials, and thanks to successful representation as well as collection and analysis of evidence, she achieved victory at the appeals instance. The violent partner was found guilty and convicted. The client was awarded damages and representation costs from him."},{"link":{"title":"2022 \u2013 Successfully defended the interests of former Judges of the Court of Appeal of Lithuania in a high-profile corruption case. ","url":"#","target":""},"text":"The pre-trial investigations against Marger Law Firm\u2019s clients \u2013 former Judges of the Court of Appeal of Lithuania - were terminated by the decision of the prosecutors citing an ambiguous and legally incorrect basis. Allegedly, insufficient data was collected to substantiate their guilt leading to the decision to terminate the pre-trial investigation, however, leaving doubt as to the fact of the performance of the criminal act itself. Active defense, precise legal arguments, and analysis of the factual circumstances made it possible to achieve victory in the court and to change the basis for the termination of the pre-trial investigation to one that completely rehabilitates the former judges. The court established that the judges did not commit any criminal act."},{"link":{"title":"2021 \u2013 Successfully defended the interests of a client \u2013 the head of the Secretariat of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania \u2013 accused of abuse of office, waste of Government property, legalization of property obtained through criminal means, and forgery of documents.","url":"#","target":""},"text":"Since 2015, the client has been accused of abuse of office, waste of government property, legalization of criminally obtained property, and forgery of documents in a criminal case. She was already acquitted of some of the charges in the court of the first instance, finding her guilty only of forging documents. However, active defense in the appellate court proved that the client did not commit this crime either. In 2021, the client was acquitted of all charges against her."},{"link":{"title":"2020 \u2013 Successfully defended a client in a case regarding the possible illegal possession, reproduction, and use of computer programs for commercial purposes. ","url":"#","target":""},"text":"Action, consequences, and causal connection are the circumstances that must be proven. After they were not identified, the client was acquitted by the court of the first instance back in 2016 regarding the possible illegal storage, reproduction, and use of computer programs for commercial purposes. However, it was necessary to prove the truth during the hearing of the case in the courts of appeal and cassation regarding the complaints of the prosecutors and the representative of the civil plaintiff. Finally, during the repeated appeal, the constructive arguments of the defense were heard, and the complaints of the prosecutor and the civil plaintiff were rejected."},{"link":{"title":"2018 \u2013 Successfully defended the director of the Druskininkai Health and Recreation Center AQUA in the case of alleged corrupt activities.","url":"#","target":""},"text":"The client - the director of the Druskininkai Health and Recreation Center AQUA - was suspected of committing a series of corrupt acts, including property crimes, since 2015. However, an active defense helped the pre-trial investigation officers and prosecutors to understand that they had made evaluation errors and the pre-trial investigation against the client was terminated, indicating that no criminal acts were committed. Prosecutors also tried to incriminate the client for fraudulent accounting, but this attempt was also nullified at the stage of the pre-trial investigation. The investigation was terminated with the conclusion that the director of the Druskininkai Health and Recreation Center AQUA did not commit any criminal acts."}]},{"title":"Experience","content_type":"regular","content":"2019 \u2013 Partner, Marger Law Firm\r\n2013-2019 \u2013 Attorney-at-law, Marger Law Firm\r\n2001-2013 \u2013 Public Prosecutor, Department of Organized Crimes and Corruption Investigation of the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office\r\n1998-2001 \u2013 Chief Investigator, Investigator for particularly important cases, Acting Head of the Division of Investigation, Klaip\u0117da Department of the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania\r\n1998 \u2013 Public Prosecutor Trainee, Department of Crimes against person Investigation, Vilnius City District Prosecutor\u2019s Office\r\n1997-1998 \u2013 Public Prosecutor Assistant, Department of Crimes against person Investigation, Vilnius City District Prosecutor\u2019s Office\r\n1996-1997 \u2013 Investigator Assistant, Department of Crimes against person Investigation, Vilnius Regional Prosecutor\u2019s Office","content_extended":null},{"title":"Education","content_type":"regular","content":"1993-1998 \u2013 Vilnius University, Master's Degree in Law","content_extended":null}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marger.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marger.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marger.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marger.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/1512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marger.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marger.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_category?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}