PROSECUTOR v SAM HINGA NORMAN & ORS - ORDER ON AN APPLICATION BY THE PROSECUTION TO HOLD A CLOSED SESSION HEARING OF WITNESS TF2-223 (SCSL-04-14-T ) [2004] SCSL 196 (27 October 2004);


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THE TRIAL CHAMBER


Before:
Hon. Judge Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Judge
Hon. Judge Bankole Thompson
Hon. Judge Pierre Boutet
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
27th of October, 2004
PROSECUTOR
Against
SAM HINGA NORMAN
MOININA FOFANA
ALLIEU KONDEWA
(Case No.SCSL-04-14-T)

ORDER ON PROSECUTION MAP EXHIBITS


Office of the Prosecutor:
Court Appointed Counsel for Sam Hinga Norman:
Luc Côté
James Johnson
Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbi
John Wesley Hall, Jr.
Tim Owen, Q.C.
Quincy Whitaker

Court Appointed Counsel for Moinina Fofana:


Michiel Pestman
Arrow Bockarie
Victor Koppe


Court Appointed Counsel for Allieu Kondewa:
Charles Margai
Yada Williams
Ansu Lansana

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

NOTING the Materials Filed Pursuant to Order to the Prosecution to File Disclosure Materials and Other Materials in Preparation for the Commencement of Trial of 1 April 2004 (“Materials”), filed by the Prosecution on the 26th of April, 2004, that included an Exhibit List set forth in Coversheet 5 of the Materials;

NOTING that Exhibit Number 195 of the Exhibit List contained in the Materials, provides a map of Sierra Leone to scale 1 : 350,000;

NOTING that the Trial Chamber took judicial notice of the existence, authenticity and contents of the abovementioned map in its Decision on Prosecution’s Motion for Judicial Notice and Admission of Evidence, rendered on the 2nd of June, 2004;

CONSIDERING that it would benefit the trial proceedings if the Prosecution would highlight on this map all locations referred to in the Indictment, that include districts and towns within the territory of Sierra Leone;

PURSUANT TO Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court;

ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:

  1. That the Prosecution highlight on the map, to a readable scale, all locations referred to in the Consolidated Indictment, that include districts and towns within the territory of Sierra Leone, and submit this copy to the Trial Chamber and to the Defence; and
  2. That the Prosecution submit additional maps to the Trial Chamber and the Defence Teams that highlight all locations referred to in each specific count of the Consolidated Indictment, that include districts and towns within the territory of Sierra Leone. Separate maps should be submitted for the following areas of the Consolidated Indictment:
    • (a) Paragraphs 23 to 24;
    • (b) Counts 1-2;
    • (c) Counts 3-4;
    • (d) Count 5;
    • (e) Counts 6-7;
  3. That the Prosecution submit all highlighted maps to the Trial Chamber and the parties by Tuesday the 2nd of November, 2004 and seek to have these maps admitted into evidence as exhibits;
  4. That the Defence file their responses, if any, on the issue of admissibility of the maps by the 9th of November, 2004.

Done in Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 27th day of October, 2004.



Hon. Judge Pierre Boutet
Hon. Judge Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Presiding Judge,
Trial Chamber

Hon. Judge Bankole Thompson

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