IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Order of:
16 January 2004
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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ORDER ON PROSECUTION’S REQUEST CONCERNING THE TESTIMONY OF B-1731
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Ms. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Dermot Groome
Amicus Curiae
Mr. Steven Kay
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Prof. Timothy L. H. McCormack
The Accused
Mr. Slobodan Milosevic
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 confidential "Prosecution’s Request for Permission to Call Witness B-248 and Notice of Intention to Seek Admission of a Statement of B-1731 Pursuant to Rule 89 (F)", filed by the Prosecution on 24 December 2003 ("Motion"), requesting, inter alia:
CONSIDERING that, in the absence of the statement of evidence it is proposed the witness would give, it is not possible for the Trial Chamber to determine the Motion, and that the Motion is therefore premature,
CONSIDERING that if the Prosecution produce such a statement the Trial Chamber will consider any application concerning the proposed evidence,
PURSUANT TO Rules 89 (F) and 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,
HEREBY DENIES THE MOTION IN RESPECT OF WITNESS B-1731.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this sixteenth day of January 2004
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]