PROSECUTOR v SAM HINGA NORMAN & ORS - CORRIGENDUM: MAJORITY DECISION ON REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL DECISION ON PROSECUTION MOTION FOR A RULING ON ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE (Case No.SCSL-04-14-T) [2006] SCSL 10 (23 January 2006);

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TRIAL CHAMBER I


Before:
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet, Presiding Judge
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Interim Registrar:
Lovemore Green Munlo, SC

Date:
23rd of January, 2005
PROSECUTOR
Against
SAM HINGA NORMAN
MOININA FOFANA
ALLIEU KONDEWA
(Case No.SCSL-04-14-T)

CORRIGENDUM
MAJORITY DECISION ON REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL DECISION ON PROSECUTION MOTION FOR A RULING ON ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE


Office of the Prosecutor:
  
Court Appointed Counsel for Sam Hinga Norman:
James Johnson
Kevin Taverner
Nina Jorgensen
  
Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbi
John Wesley Hall, Jr.
Alusine Sani Sesay

Court Appointed Counsel for Moinina Fofana:
   
Victor Koppe
Arrow Bockarie
Michiel Pestman
   
Court Appointed Counsel for Allieu Kondewa:
Charles Margai
Yada Williams
Ansu Lansana

THE TRIAL CHAMBER I of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”) composed of Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet, Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson and Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe;


MINDFUL of the Majority Decision on Request for Leave to Appeal Decision on Prosecution Motion for a Ruling on Admissibility of Evidence of the 9th of December, 2005 (“Decision”);


CONSIDERING the following sentence in the preamble of this Decision:


MINDFUL of the Reasoned Majority Decision on Prosecution Motion for a Ruling on the Admissibility of Evidence, filed on the 22nd of June, 2005, comprising of the Separate Concurring Opinion of Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe and the Dissenting Opinion of Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet (“Impugned Decision”);


CONSIDERING that this sentence should, instead, read as follows:


MINDFUL of the Reasoned Majority Decision on Prosecution Motion for a Ruling on the Admissibility of Evidence, filed by Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson and Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutange Itoe on the 22nd of June, 2005, comprising also of the Separate Concurring Opinion of Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe;


MINDFUL of the Dissenting Opinion on the aforementioned Decision by Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet;


FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS,

PURSUANT to Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court,

ORDERS that the Decision be amended as follows:

MINDFUL of the Reasoned Majority Decision on Prosecution Motion for a Ruling on the Admissibility of Evidence, filed by Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson and Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutange Itoe on the 22nd of June, 2005, comprising also of the Separate Concurring Opinion of Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe;


MINDFUL of the Dissenting Opinion on the aforementioned Decision by Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet;[1]


Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 23rd day of January, 2005


Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Presiding Judge,
Trial Chamber I
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson

[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]

[1] For the purposes of the present Decision, the Reasoned Majority Decision on Prosecution Motion for a Ruling on the Admissibility of Evidence, the Separate Concurring Opinion of Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe and the Dissenting Opinion of Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet will be herein referred to jointly as the “Impugned Decision”.