PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - DECISION ON SESAY REQUEST FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OR CLARIFICATION OF TRIAL CHAMBER’S 22nd MAY 2008 WARNING TO ISSA SESAY ( SCSL--2004-15-T ) [2008] SCSL 47 (09 June 2008);
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TRIAL CHAMBER I
Before:
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Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Judge
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet |
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Registrar:
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Herman von Hebel
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Date:
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9th of June 2008
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PROSECUTOR
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Against
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Issa Hassan Sesay
Morris Kallon Augustine Gbao (Case No. SCSL--2004-15-T) |
Public Document
DECISION ON SESAY REQUEST FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OR CLARIFICATION OF TRIAL CHAMBER’S 22nd MAY 2008 WARNING TO ISSA SESAY
Office of the Prosecutor:
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Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan
Sesay:
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Peter Harrison
Reginald Flynn Charles Hardaway |
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Wayne Jordash
Sareta Ashraph |
Vincent Wagona
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Defence Counsel for Morris
Kallon:
Charles Taku Kennedy Ogeto Tanoo Mylvaganam |
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Defence Counsel for Augustine
Gbao:
John Cammegh Scott Martin |
TRIAL CHAMBER I (“Trial Chamber”) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”) composed of Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson and Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet;
HAVING RECEIVED the Motion Requesting the Withdrawal or Clarification of Trial Chamber’s 22nd May 2008 Warning to Issa Sesay filed publicly by the Defence for the First Accused, Issa Hassan Sesay (“Defence”) on the 27th of May 2008;
NOTING the Chamber Decision filed publicly on the 22nd of May 2008 (“Decision”) in which the Chamber ordered that the Accused Issa Sesay be admonished against making any such utterances in the future under any circumstances and that Counsel for the Accused Issa Sesay should properly advise his client on the consequences of such utterances upon the administration of justice and for the Accused himself[1];
HAVING duly considered the motion filed together with the Decision;
NOTING that the aforementioned Chamber Decision is unambiguous, explicit and unequivocal;
PURSUANT to Rules 26bis and 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;
HOLDS that the Decision is sufficiently explicit and needs no further clarification;
CONSEQUENTLY Denies the Application.
Done in Freetown this 9th day of June, 2008
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Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
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Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
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Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson
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Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I |
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[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]
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[1]Prosecutor v. Sesay et al, SCSL-04-15, Decision on Warning to Issa Sesay, 22nd May 2008.