Jonas Prapiestis is a Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n judge, Professor of criminal law

Criminal law

Criminal law, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is not allowed because it is held to threaten, harm or endanger the safety and welfare of people, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey...

 and politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 11 was an independence declaration by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic adopted on March 11, 1990...

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Biography

Jonas Prapiestis has graduated the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in 1975 and has worked as a lecturer in the Department of the Criminal Law of the Faculty.

He worked as a judge in the field of Criminal law and Criminal procedure at Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas.