PROSECUTOR v ALEX TAMBA BRIMA & ORS - DECISION ON JOINT DEFENCE MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR WITNESS DBK-088 (SCSL-04-16-T ) [2006] SCSL 57 (19 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:
19 May 2006
PROSECUTOR
Against
Alex Tamba Brima
Brima Bazzy Kamara
Santigie Borbor Kanu
(Case No.SCSL-04-16-T)

DECISION ON JOINT DEFENCE MOTION FOR
PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR WITNESS DBK-088


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 A. Knoops
Carry J. Knoops
A.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 Joint Defence Motion for Protective Measures for Witness DBK-088, filed on 18 May 2006 (“the Motion”), in which the Defence requests the Trial Chamber to extend the protective measures ordered in its Decision on Protective Measures[1] to Witness DBK-088;

NOTING that the Prosecution has stated in a letter to the Trial Chamber dated 19 May 2006 that it does not oppose the Motion and does not intend to file a response;

NOTING that the subject witness is listed in the Defence Disclosure[2] as Witness number 40 with the pseudonym “DBK-110”, but that the Defence wishes to change this pseudonym to “DBK-088” for administrative reasons;

SATISFIED that the failure by the Defence to include Witness DBK-088 in its Application for Protective Measures[3] was inadvertent;


HEREBY GRANTS THE MOTION


and


ORDERS that the protective measures ordered in the Trial Chambers’ Decision on Joint Defence Application for Protective Measures for Defence Witnesses dated 9 May 2006 shall also apply to Witness DBK-088.


Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 19th day of May, 2006.

Justice Teresa Doherty
Justice Richard Lussick
Presiding Judge
Justice Julia Sebutinde

[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]

[1] Prosecutor v. Brima et al., Case No. SCSL-04-16-T, Decision on Joint Defence Application for Protective Measures for Defence Witnesses, 9 May 2006.
[2] Prosecutor v. Brima et al., Case No. SCSL-04-16-T, Confidential Joint Defence Disclosure Pursuant to Trial Chamber Order of 26 April 2006, filed on 10 May 2006.
[3] Prosecution v. Brima et al., Case No. SCSL-04-16-T, Joint Defence Application for Protective Measures for Defence Witnesses, filed on 25 April 2006.