IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before: Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Lal Chand Vohrah
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of: 21 January 1998
PROSECUTOR
v.
SIMO DRLJACA
MILAN KOVACEVIC
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SCHEDULING ORDER
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Michael Keegan
Mr. Morten Bergsmo
Ms. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Ms. Ann Sutherland
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Dusan Vucicevic, for Milan Kovacevic
THE TRIAL CHAMBER,
NOTING the Defence Motion To Strike Portions Of The Indictment filed on
11 September 1997 and the response of the Office of the Prosecutor ("the
Prosecution") thereto, filed on 24 September 1997,
NOTING the intention of the Prosecution to seek leave to amend the
indictment against the accused, pursuant to Rule 50 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence
of the International Tribunal ("the Rules") as foreshadowed in the status
conference held on 16 January 1998,
PURSUANT TO Rule 54 of the Rules
HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
- the Prosecution shall file its request for leave to amend the indictment by Wednesday 28
January 1998;
- the Defence shall file its response to the request for leave to amend the indictment,
together with an amended Motion To Strike Portions Of The Indictment, if desired, by
Monday 9 February 1998;
- the motion for leave to amend the indictment and the Motion To Strike Portions Of The
Indictment shall be heard on Thursday 12 February 1998, commencing at 9.30 a.m.,
- if the motion for leave to amend the indictment is granted, and with the consent of the
Defence, the further appearance of the accused to plead to any new charges will take place
immediately after the motions hearing;
- the motions hearing and further appearance, if any, shall be followed by a closed
session status conference to consider, inter alia, the following matters:
- whether to order the Prosecution to disclose to the Trial Chamber the statements of
witnesses and other documentary material on which the Prosecution intends to rely at
trial;
- whether to request that the Prosecution indicate the number of witnesses it intends to
call and the estimated length of the Prosecution case;
- whether to order the Defence, within a time-limit to be set by the Trial Chamber, to
state in writing:
- those points, if any, in the indictment which are admitted;
- those points in the indictment which are denied and the grounds for so doing; and
- in general terms, the defence to the indictment;
d. matters, if any, of which the Trial Chamber may take judicial
notice pursuant to Rule 94 of the Rules; and
e. to fix a date for trial.
Richard May
Presiding Judge
Dated this twenty-first day of January 1998
At The Hague
The Netherlands
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