PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - ORDER REGARDING KALLON URGENT REQUEST FOR RELIEF TO EXTEND THE PERIOD FOR FINAL ORAL SUBMISSIONS (SCSL-04-15-T ) [2008] SCSL 64 (01 August 2008);


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TRIAL CHAMBER I


Before:
Hon. Judge Pierre Boutet, Presiding Judge
Hon. Judge Bankole Thompson
Hon. Judge Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Registrar:
Herman von Hebel
Date:
1st of August 2008
PROSECUTOR
Against
ISSA HASSAN SESAY
MORRIS KALLON
AUGUSTINE GBAO
(Case No.SCSL-04-15-T)

Public Document


ORDER REGARDING KALLON URGENT REQUEST FOR RELIEF
TO EXTEND THE PERIOD FOR FINAL ORAL SUBMISSIONS


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
Peter Harrison
Reginald Fynn
Vincent Wagona
Charles Hardaway
Wayne Jordash
Sareta Ashraph

Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:


Charles Taku
Kennedy Ogeto
Tanoo Mylvaganam


Court Appointed 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 Pierre Boutet, Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson and Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe;

NOTING the Chamber’s Order Regarding the Presentation of Closing Arguments filed on the 1st of August 2008 (“Order”);

SEIZED of the Kallon Urgent Request for Relief to Extend the Period for Final Oral Submissions filed on the 1st of August 2008 (“Kallon Urgent Request”) in which the Defence for the Accused Morris Kallon seeks an extension of the time limit for the presentation of their closing arguments from one and a half hours to six hours;

CONSIDERING that all of the arguments advanced in the Kallon Urgent Request were already taken into consideration by the Trial Chamber in arriving at the time limits set out in the Chamber’s Order;

REITERATING that the Parties have filed very comprehensive final trial briefs and that the purpose of the closing arguments is to enable the Parties to address issues raised in the final trial briefs of the other Parties not already addressed in their own final trial brief;

SATISFIED that the limitation of the periods of time for the presentation of closing arguments as set out in the Chamber’s Order are in the interests of justice;

PURSUANT TO Rules 26 bis, 54 and 86 of the Rules:


HEREBY DENIES the Kallon Urgent Request in its entirety and as a result ORDERS that:

  1. The Defence for Kallon will be given a period of one and a half hours to present its closing arguments;
  2. The Defence application that an oral hearing be scheduled for the 4th of August 2008 prior to the hearing of closing arguments is denied; and
  3. The Defence application to file a written response to the Prosecution Final Trial Brief is also denied;

AND ALSO ORDERS the Court Management Section to accept this filing after hours and to serve it on the Parties immediately.


Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 1st day of August 2008


Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson

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