Case No. IT-02-54-T
IN TRIAL CHAMBER III
Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Judge Iain Bonomy
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Decision:
19 July 2004
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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FINAL DECISION ON ADMISSIBILITY OF INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS TENDERED THROUGH WITNESS HRVOJE SARINIC
The Office of the Prosecutor:
Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Dermot Groome
Ms. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Amici Curiae:
Mr. Steven Kay, QC
Prof. Timothy L.H. McCormack
Ms. Gillian Higgins
The Accused:
Mr. Slobodan Milosevic
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"),
NOTING the following:
CONSIDERING the "Final Decision on the Admissibility of Intercepted Communications", issued 14 June 2004, in particular the report of experts J.P. French and Associates regarding the authenticity of certain intercepts submitted by the Prosecution,
CONSIDERING that the Sarinic intercepts are relevant,
PURSUANT to Rules 54, 89, and 95 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,
HEREBY ADMITS INTO EVIDENCE the Sarinic intercepts.
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
____________Dated this nineteenth day of July 2004
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]