PROSECUTOR v ALEX TAMBA BRIMA & ORS - DECISION ON PROSECUTION MOTION TO BRING FORWARD THE NEXT SCHEDULED STATUS CONFERENCE (SCSL-04-16-T ) [2006] SCSL 49 (08 May 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:
8 May 2006
PROSECUTOR
Against
Alex Tamba Brima
Brima Bazzy Kamara
Santigie Borbor Kanu
(Case No.SCSL-04-16-T)

DECISION ON PROSECUTION MOTION TO BRING FORWARD THE NEXT SCHEDULED STATUS CONFERENCE


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Alex Tamba Brima:
Christopher Staker
Karim Agha
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

TRIAL CHAMBER II (“Trial Chamber”) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”), composed of Justice Richard Lussick, presiding, Justice Teresa Doherty and Justice Julia Sebutinde;

SEISED of the Prosecution Motion to Bring Forward the Next Scheduled Status Conference, filed on 1 May 2006 (“Motion”);

NOTING the Joint Defence Response to Prosecution Motion to Bring Forward the Next Scheduled Status Conference, filed on 5 May 2006 (“Response”);

NOTING the Prosecution Reply to Defence Response to Prosecution Motion to Bring Forward the Next Scheduled Status Conference, filed on 5 May 2006 (“Reply”);

RECALLING the Order for Disclosure Pursuant to Rule 73ter and the Start of the Defence Case, made on 26 April 2006 (“Order”);

CONSIDERING that there has been no change in circumstances since the Order was made and that Defence Counsel have made commitments based on the Order;

FINDS that the Motion is accordingly without merit;

and

DISMISSES the Motion.


Done at Freetown this 8th day of May 2006.

Justice Teresa Doherty
Justice Richard Lussick
Presiding Judge
Justice Julia Sebutinde

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