IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge Mohamed Fassi Fihri
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
PROSECUTOR
v.
MOMCILO KRAJISNIK
&
BILJANA PLAVSIC
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DECISION ON MOTION FROM BILJANA PLAVSIC
FOR SEPARATE TRIAL
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Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Mark Harmon
Mr. Nicola Piacente
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Deyan Brashich, for Momcilo Krajisnik
Mr. Robert. J. Pavich, for Biljana Plavsic
THIS TRIAL CHAMBER of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("International Tribunal"),
BEING SEISED of a "Motion for Separate Trial" filed on behalf of the accused, Biljana Plavsic, on 9 April 2001 ("the Motion"), in which the accused seeks to have her trial separated from that of the co-accused in this proceeding for the following reasons:
NOTING the "Prosecution’s Response to Biljana Plavsic’s Motion for Separate Trial" filed by the OTP on 20 April 2001, in which the OTP submits that the Motion be rejected for the following reasons:
CONSIDERING that the Trial Chamber in its Joinder Order ruled on the relevant arguments raised by the accused and decided that there would be no conflict of interest in joining the trials and that to do so would be in the interests of justice, and therefore ordered the trials to be joined;
CONSIDERING that the accused has raised no new relevant arguments in satisfaction of Rule 82 (B);
PURSUANT TO RULES 54 AND 82 OF THE RULES
HEREBY DENIES the Motion.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this twenty-seventh day APRIL of 2001
At The Hague
The Netherlands