Case No.: IT-03-68-PT

IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Decision of:
23 July 2003

PROSECUTOR
v.
NASER ORIC

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DECISION ON SUBMISSION OF AMENDED INDICTMENT

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The Office of the Prosecutor

Mr. Ekkehard Withopf
Mr. Jayantha Jayasuriya

Counsel for the Accused

Ms. Vasvija Vidovic
Mr. John Jones

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 a "Submission of Amended Indictment" filed on 16 July 2002 by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution"), submitting an amended indictment dated 16 July 2003 ("Amended Indictment") against Naser Oric (“Accused”),

NOTING the "Decision on Preliminary Motion Regarding Defects in the Form of the Indictment" issued on 3 July 2003 by the Trial Chamber, ordering the Prosecution to file an amended indictment containing the two amendments proposed by the Prosecution,1

CONSIDERING that the Amended Indictment contains two such amendments and no other amendments,

PURSUANT TO Rule 50 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,

HEREBY ORDERS that the Amended Indictment is the operative indictment against the Accused.

 

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

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Richard May
Presiding

Dated this twenty-third day of July 2003
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]


1. In order to avoid any perceived ambiguity, the two amendments proposed by the Prosecution were (i) to insert in the seventh line of paragraph 21, after the words "superior order," the phrase "namely the order of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina dated 23 August 1992; and (ii) to replace in the third line of paragraph 36, the words "including, but not limited to," with the word "namely" in the indictment against the Accused. See Prosecutor v. Naser Oric, "Prosecution’s Response to "Preliminary Motion Regarding Defects in the Form of the Indictment," Case No. IT-03-68-PT, 4 June 2003, paras 27 and 35.