PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - KALLON - ORDER ON EXTENSION OF TIME FOR THE PRINCIPAL DEFENDER TO FILE REPORT ( SCSL-04-15-PT ) [2004] SCSL 92 (11 May 2004);


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THE TRIAL CHAMBER


Before:
Judge Bankole Thompson, Presiding Judge
Judge Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Judge Pierre Boutet
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
11 May 2004
PROSECUTOR
Against
ISSA HASSAN SESAY
MORRIS KALLON
AUGUSTINE GBAO
(Case No.SCSL-04-15-PT)

ORDER FOR COMMENCEMENT OF TRIAL


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
Luc Côté
Robert Petit
Timothy Clayson
Wayne Jordash

Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:


Shekou Touray
Melron Nicol-Wilson


Defence Counsel for Augustine Gbao:
Girish Thanki
Andreas O’Shea

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

NOTING the Decision and Order on Prosecution Motions for Joinder filed on 27 January 2004, ordering a joint trial of the three accused Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao;

NOTING the Consolidated Indictment filed 5 February 2004, as amended by the Decision on Prosecution Request for Leave to Amend the Indictment of 6 May 2004;

CONSIDERING the submissions of the parties at the Pre-Trial Conference held on 29 April 2004;

CONSIDERING the Decision on the Prosecution Motion for Concurrent Hearing of Evidence Common to Cases SCSL-2004-15-PT and SCSL-2004-16-PT of this Chamber filed 11 May 2004.

PURSUANT to Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone;

HEREBY ORDERS that:

The joint trial of the three accused Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao shall commence on Monday 5 July 2004, at 10.00 am.


Done at Freetown this 11th Day of May 2004

Judge Bankole Thompson

Presiding Judge,
Trial Chamber


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