Brožová-Polednová files constitutional complaint

Ludmila Brožová-Polednová - the former Czechoslovak communist prosecutor who was recently sentenced to six years behind bars for judicial murder - has lodged a constitutional complaint asserting that procedural mistakes accompanied her trial, the news website aktualne.cz reported. Mrs Brožová-Polednová, who is 87, is serving her sentence in the Světlá nad Sazavou prison, east Bohemia. Her defence lawyer said that the panel of Supreme Court judges that turned down her appellate review request were biased, the website said. The defendant was sentenced to prison by the High Court in Prague last September. In late February the courts rejected her request for her stay in prison to be postponed over poor health.