IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Order of:
4 November 2002
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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ORDER GRANTING FURTHER PROSECUTION MOTION TO VARY TIME FOR FILING AN AMENDED BOSNIA INDICTMENT
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Ms. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Dermot Groome
The Accused
Slobodan Milosevic
Amici Curiae
Mr. Steven Kay, QC
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Prof. Mischa Wladimiroff
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 "Amended Croatia Indictment and Prosecution’s Motion for Further Variation of the Trial Chamber’s Order of 17 September 2002", filed by the Prosecution on 23 October 2002, in which the Prosecution seeks a one month extension of the time limit set by the Trial Chamber for filing an amended Bosnia indictment,
NOTING that the Trial Chamber has already granted the Prosecution a one month extension on its initial Order to file an amended Bosnia indictment by 26 September 2002,
NOTING that the Prosecution attaches a draft amended Bosnia indictment containing reductions in the Prosecution case with respect to the Bosnia Indictment, and that the Prosecution anticipates additional substantive deletions to the Bosnia Indictment to follow shortly and requests further time in which to incorporate these changes into one amended indictment,
CONSIDERING that it would be preferable to work from one amended indictment, rather than incrementally amended indictments, and that crime base issues concerning the Bosnia part of these proceedings have not yet been led in evidence, and therefore no prejudice flows to the accused or the Trial Chamber from granting the further extension of time,
PURSUANT TO RULE 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal
HEREBY ORDERS the Prosecution to file an Amended Bosnia Indictment by 24 November 2002.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this fourth day of November 2002
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]