PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - ORDER ON PROSECUTION APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO RESPOND TO THE SESAY DEFENCE REPLY REGARDING DEFENCE MOTION FOR DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO RULE 66(A)(iii) AND/OR DISCLOSURE PUIRSUANT TO RULE 68 ( SCSL-04-15-T ) [2007] SCSL


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TRIAL CHAMBER I


Before:
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson, Presiding Judge
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Registrar:
Herman von Hebel, Acting Registrar
Date:
25th of April 2007
PROSECUTOR
Against
ISSA HASSAN SESAY
MORRIS KALLON
AUGUSTINE GBAO
(Case No. SCSL-04-15-T)

Public Document


ORDER ON PROSECUTION APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO RESPOND TO THE SESAY DEFENCE REPLY REGARDING DEFENCE MOTION FOR DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO RULE 66(A)(iii) AND/OR DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO RULE 68


Office of the Prosecutor:
  
Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
James C. Johnson
Peter Harrison
  
Wayne Jordash
Sareta Ashraph
   
Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:
Shekou Touray
Charles Taku
Melron Nicol-Wilson
   
Court Appointed Counsel for Augustine Gbao:
Andreas O’Shea
John Cammegh

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

SEIZED of the Prosecution Application for Leave to Respond to the Sesay Defence Reply to Prosecution Response to Defence Motion to Request the Trial Chamber to Permit Inspection of Witness Statements (Rule 66(A)(iii)) and/or Order Disclosure Pursuant to Rule 68, filed by the Office of the Prosecutor (“Prosecution”) on the 24th of April 2007 (“Application”);

RECALLING the Defence Motion to Request the Trial Chamber to Permit Inspection of Witness Statements (Rule 66(A)(iii)) and/or Order Disclosure Pursuant to Rule 68, filed by the Defence Counsel for the First Accused, Issa Hassan Sesay (“Sesay Defence”), on the 30th of March 2007 (“Motion”);

RECALLING the Prosecution Response to Sesay Defence Motion to Request the Trial Chamber to Permit Inspection of Witness Statements (Rule 66(A)(iii)) and/or Order Disclosure Pursuant to Rule 68, filed by the Prosecution on the 16th of April 2007;

RECALLING the Defence Reply to Prosecution Response to Defence Motion to Request the Trial Chamber to Permit Inspection of Witness Statements (Rule 66(A)(iii)) and/or Order Disclosure Pursuant to Rule 68, filed by the Sesay Defence on the 23rd of April 2007 (“Reply”);

NOTING that in the Application the Prosecution applies for leave to file a further response to the Motion in order to correct factual errors, which the Prosecution alleges the Sesay Defence has made in the Reply and to have the Application accepted as such further response;[1]

THE CHAMBER HEREBY GRANTS the Application

AND ORDERS the Sesay Defence to file a response to the Application within three days of the date of the present order;


Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 25th day of April 2007
 
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson
  
 
Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I
  

[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]

[1] Application, paras 1 and 5.