IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before: Judge Antonio Cassese, Presiding
Judge Richard May
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Decision of: 15 May 1998
PROSECUTOR
v.
Zoran KUPRESKIC, Mirjan KUPRESKIC, Vlatko KUPRESKIC,
Vladimir SANTIC, also known as "VLADO", Stipo ALILOVIC, also known as
"BRKO",
Drago JOSIPOVIC, Marinko KATAVA, Dragan PAPIC
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DECISION ON DEFENCE REQUEST FOR ASSIGNMENT OF CO-COUNSEL
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Mark Harmon
Mr. Michael Blaxill
Mr. Terree Bowers
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Ranko Radovic, for Zoran Kupreskic
Ms. Jadranka Glumac, for Mirjan Kupreskic
Mr. Petar Pavkovic, for Vladimir Santic
Mr. Luko Susak, for Drago Josipovic
Mr. Petar Puliselic, for Dragan Papic
Mr. Borislav Krajina, for Vlatko Kupreskic
THE TRIAL CHAMBER
BEING SEISED of the Request For Assignment Of Co-Counsel filed by Defence Counsel for Vlatko Kupreskic on 5 May 1998 and of the letter from the accused, Vlatko Kupreskic, in support of that application filed on 11 May 1998,
NOTING the Trial Chamber's Decision On Defence Requests For Assignment Of Counsel of 10 March 1998,
CONSIDERING that the above-mentioned Decision was made as an exception to the standard prescribed by Rule 45 (A) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules") under paragraph (B) of that Rule,
CONSIDERING FURTHER that it is for the Registrar of the International Tribunal to decide whether the Defence Counsel meet the requirements set out in the Rules,
HEREBY DISMISSES THE REQUEST FOR ASSIGNMENT OF CO-COUNSEL.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Antonio Cassese
Presiding Judge
Dated this fifteenth day of May 1998
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]