IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
28 April 2000
PROSECUTOR
v.
DARIO KORDIC
MARIO CERKEZ
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SCHEDULING ORDER
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Ms. Susan Somers
Mr. Patrick Lopez-Terres
Mr. Kenneth Scott
Defence Counsel
Mr. Mitko Naumovski, Mr. Leo Andreis, Mr. David F. Geneson, Mr. Turner T. Smith, Jr., Mr. Robert A. Stein, Mr. Stephen M. Sayers and Ms. Ksenija Turkovic, for Dario Kordic
THIS TRIAL CHAMBER 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 ("the International Tribunal"),
NOTING the submission on 26 April 2000 by the Cerkez Defence of its confidential list of potential witnesses, pursuant to the Scheduling Order for Defence Case issued by the Trial Chamber on 23 February 2000,
NOTING the provisions of Rule 73 ter (C) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules") permitting a Trial Chamber to call upon the Defence to reduce the number of witnesses if it considers that an excessive number of witnesses are being called to prove the same facts,
CONSIDERING the extensive nature of the Cerkez Defence witness list and the need for the Trial Chamber to ensure a fair and expeditious trial,
PURSUANT TO Rule 73 ter of the Rules,
HEREBY CALLS UPON the Cerkez Defence, within seven days, to justify to the Trial Chamber the extensive number of witnesses to be called.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this twenty-eighth day April of 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]