IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Almiro Rodrigues, Presiding
Judge Fouad Riad
Judge Patricia Wald

Registrar:
Mrs Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
11 May 2000

PROSECUTOR

v

STANISLAV GALIC

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ORDER ON THE DEFENCE MOTION TO SUPPRESS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr Franck Terrier

Counsel for the Defence:

Mr Nikola Kostich

 

TRIAL CHAMBER I of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("International Tribunal");

BEING SEIZED of the Defence’s "Motion to Suppress Physical Evidence", dated 7 April 2000 and filed on 13 April 2000 ("the Motion"), in which the Defence requests that the Trial Chamber order that any physical evidence seized from the accused at the time of arrest be suppressed or excluded from trial;

NOTING the "Prosecutor’s Response to Defence Motion to Suppress Physical Evidence", dated and filed on 20 April 2000, in which the Prosecution submits that the Motion should be denied, although it has come into possession, custody and control of certain items seized from the accused upon his arrest, and that certain items were returned whereas others were retained, of which the Defence is aware;

CONSIDERING that the admissibility of any evidence is to be addressed by the parties at trial and finally to be decided by the Trial Chamber in accordance with the Rules, particularly Rules 89 and 95;

FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS,

REJECTS the Motion.

Done in English and French, the English version being authoritative.

 

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Almiro Rodrigues
Presiding Judge

Done this 11 May 2000
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

[Seal of the Tribunal]