PROSECUTOR v SAM HINGA NORMAN & ORS - DECISION ON PROSECUTION REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO CALL ADDITIONAL WITNESSES (SCSL-04-14-T ) [2004] SCSL 161 (29 July 2004);


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THE TRIAL CHAMBER


Before:
Judge Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Judge
Judge Bankole Thompson
Judge Pierre Boutet
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
29 July 2004
PROSECUTOR
Against
Sam Hinga Norman
Moinina Fofana
Allieu Kondewa
(Case No.SCSL-04-14)

ORDER TO PROSECUTION TO PROVIDE ORDER OF WITNESSES
AND WITNESS STATEMENTS


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Sam Hinga Norman:
Luc Côté
James Johnson
James Jenkins-Johnston

Defence Counsel for Moinina Fofana:


Michiel Pestman


Defence Counsel for Allieu Kondewa:
Charles Margai



THE TRIAL CHAMBER (“Trial 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 Trial Chamber’s “Order to Prosecution to Provide Order of Witnesses and Witness Statements”, delivered on 28 May 2004;

NOTING the “Prosecution’s Order of Witnesses to be Called in the Second Trial Session”, filed by the Prosecution on 26 July 2004;

PURSUANT TO Rules 54 and Rule 73 bis of the Rules;

HEREBY ORDERS the Prosecution:

For the second session of the CDF trial, that runs from 8 September to 30 September; and the third session of the CDF trial, that runs from 1 November to 7 December 2004:

(1) To provide each Defence Team and the Trial Chamber with a list of the order it intends to call witnesses to testify, 14 days in advance of their testimony;
(2) To provide the Trial Chamber with a confidential copy of their unredacted witness statements one week prior to their testimony.
Done at Freetown this 29th day of July 2004

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

Hon. Judge Bankole Thompson

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