PROSECUTOR v ALEX TAMBA BRIMA & ORS - CORRIGENDUM TO THE SEPARATE AND CONCURRING OPINION OF JUSTICE JULIA SEBUTINDE ON DEFENCE MOTION FOR JUDGEMENT OF ACQUITTAL PERSUANT TO RULE 98 (SCSL-04-16-T ) [2006] SCSL 40 (03 April 2006);


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TRIAL CHAMBER II


Before:
Justice Richard Lussick, Presiding Judge
Justice Teresa Doherty
Justice Julia Sebutinde
Registrar:
Lovemore G. Munlo, SC
Date:
3 April 2006
PROSECUTOR
Against
Alex Tamba Brima
Brima Bazzy Kamara
Santigie Borbor Kanu
(Case No.SCSL-04-16-T)

CORRIGENDUM TO THE SEPARATE AND CONCURRING OPINION
OF JUSTICE JULIA SEBUTINDE ON DEFENCE MOTION FOR
JUDGEMENT OF ACQUITTAL PERSUANT TO RULE 98


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Alex Tamba Brima:
Jim Johnson
Karim Khan Agha
James Hodes
Kojo Graham
Glenna Thompson


Defence Counsel for Brima Bazzy Kamara:
Andrew Daniels
Mohamed Pa-Momo Fofanah


Defence Counsel for Santigie Borbor Kanu:
Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops
Carry Knoops
Abibola E. Manly-Spain

I, JUSTICE JULIA SEBUTINDE, Judge of Trial Chamber II;

NOTING the “Separate and Concurring Opinion of Hon. Justice Julia Sebutinde on Defence Motion for Judgement of Acquittal Pursuant to Rule 98”, filed on 31 March 2006;

CONSIDERING THAT the third sentence of paragraph 3 should read as follows:

“However, care must be taken to ensure that the joining of crimes in an indictment is done in a manner that does not offend the rule against multiplicity, duplicity, uncertainty or vagueness, and that is not likely to embarrass or prejudice the accused person or violate his right under Article 17 (4) a. of the Statute “to be informed of the nature and cause of the charge against him”.

FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS,

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

ORDERS that the Separate and Concurring Opinion be amended as set out above.


Done at Freetown this 3rdday of April 2005.


Justice Julia Sebutinde

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