IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Decision of:
20 December 2000
PROSECUTOR
v.
DUSKO SIKIRICA
DAMIR DOSEN
DRAGAN KOLUNDZIJA
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DECISION GRANTING PROSECUTIONS ADDITIONAL REQUEST FOR ADMISSION OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Dirk Ryneveld
Mr. Daryl Mundis
Ms. Julia Baly
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Veselin Londrovic, for Dusko Sikirica
Mr. Vladimir Petrovic, for Damir Dosen
Mr. Dusan Vucicevic, for Dragan Kolundzija
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 the "Prosecutions Additional Request for Admission of Documentary Evidence" ("the Motion"), filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 13 October 2000, seeking admission into evidence of certain documents set out therein,
NOTING that no objection to the Motion has been raised by counsel for any of the accused,
PURSUANT TO Rules 54 and 73 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules"),
HEREBY GRANTS THE MOTION AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
the documents listed in Annex One to the Motion shall be admitted for the purposes of the trial;
counsel for the accused are at liberty to challenge the authenticity of any of the documents during the trial;
the Prosecution shall deal with any issues raised as to the authenticity of the documents so admitted by way of rebuttal.
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this twentieth day of December 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]