IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge Mohamed El Habib Fassi Fihri

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
23 April 2001

PROSECUTOR

v.

DUSKO SIKIRICA
DAMIR DOSEN
DRAGAN KOLUNDZIJA

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ORDER GRANTING STAY OF PROCEEDINGS
AND ORDERING MEDICAL EXAMINATION

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Dirk Ryneveld
Ms. Julia Baly
Mr. Daryl Mundis

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Veselin Londrovic and Mr. Michael Greaves, for Dusko Sikirica
Mr. Vladimir Petrovic and Mr. Goran Rodic, for Damir Dosen
Mr. Dušan Vucicevic and Mr. Jovan Ostojic, for Dragan Kolundžija

 

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 "Defendant, Dragan Kolundzija’s Emergency Motion for a Stay of Trial Proceedings" filed on behalf of Dragan Kolundzija on 20 April 2001 ("the Motion"),

HAVING HEARD the parties in closed session on 23 April 2001,

NOTING the medical reports as to the condition of the accused provided by the Registry of the International Tribunal,

CONSIDERING the reasons given in support of the Motion,

HAVING GRANTED THE REQUEST orally on 9 April 2001 with the agreement of the parties,

PURSUANT TO Rules 54 and 74 bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal

HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ORDERS as follows:

  1. a medical examination of the accused, Dragan Kolundzija, shall be carried out to ascertain his current fitness to stand trial and the Trial Chamber instructs the Registrar to entrust this task to one of the experts whose name appears on the list drawn up by the Registry of the International Tribunal;
  2. the expert shall provide an oral or written report to the Trial Chamber no later than Tuesday 1 May 2001;
  3. the presentation of oral testimony in this matter is adjourned until further order.

 

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

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Patrick Robinson
Presiding

Dated this twenty-third day of April 2001
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]