Order on the Prosecution's Oral Request for the Release of Esad Ramic from the Subpoena Ad Testificandum Issued by the Trial Chamber

IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before: Judge Adolphus G. Karibi-Whyte, Presiding

Judge Elizabeth Odio Benito

Judge Saad Saood Jan

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 23 October 1997

PROSECUTOR

v.

ZEJNIL DELALIC
ZDRAVKO MUCIC also known as "PAVO"
HAZIM DELIC
ESAD LANDZO also known as "ZENGA"

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ORDER ON THE PROSECUTION’S ORAL
REQUEST FOR THE RELEASE OF ESAD RAMIC
FROM THE SUBPOENA AD TESTIFICANDUM
ISSUED BY THE TRIAL CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Grant Niemann

Ms. Teresa McHenry

Mr. Giuliano Turone

Counsel for the Accused:

Ms. Edina Residovic, Mr. Ekrem Galijatovic, Mr. Eugene O’Sullivan, for Zejnil Delalic

Mr. Zeljko Olujic, Mr. Michael Greaves, for Zdravko Mucic

Mr. Salih Karabdic, Mr. Thomas Moran, for Hazim Delic

Mr. John Ackerman, Ms. Cynthia McMurrey, for Esad Landzo

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 Subpoena ad testificandum issued by this Trial Chamber against Mr. Esad Ramic on 16 October 1997, (RP D5271 - 5272), following a request by the Prosecution for a subpoena ad testificandum to be issued against Mr. Ramic;

NOTING that Mr. Ramic has appeared in The Hague in compliance with the Subpoena ad testificandum, and is willing to testify;

NOTING the oral the request by the Prosecution for the release of Mr. Ramic from the Subpoena ad testificandum on the grounds that his testimony is unnecessary at this time, made this day before the Trial Chamber;

PURSUANT TO RULE 54,

HEREBY VACATES the subpoena ad testificandum in so far as it relates to Mr. Ramic’s obligation to testify in these proceedings.

Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.

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Adolphus Godwin Karibi-Whyte

Presiding Judge

Dated this twenty-third day of October 1997,

At The Hague,

The Netherlands.

[Seal of the Tribunal]