During the trial, Kandic claimed that the Scorpions had been under the jurisdiction of the Serbian police, while the court ruled that the unit had mostly operated as part of the so-called Army of the Serbs from Croatia.
Kandic a afirmat în cursul procesului că Scorpionii s-au aflat sub jurisdicţia poliţiei sârbe, însă curtea a decis că unitatea a operat în principal ca parte a aşa-numitei Armate a Sârbilor din Croaţia.