Balijagić will serve 40 years in prison after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal. He was convicted of murdering his brother and his sister. In reaching its decision, the court examined how the original sentence had been calculated. Its conclusion was that every mitigating and aggravating circumstance had been properly weighed. With that confirmed, there was no basis to shorten the punishment. The rejection closes the ordinary appellate road for the defendant. Double murder cases within a family are rare enough that the verdict drew attention, and the 40-year term now stands settled at the Supreme Court level.