Case No. IT-95-13/1-PT

IN TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:
Judge Wolfgang Schomburg, Presiding
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Judge Carmel Agius

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Decision of:
15 July 2003

PROSECUTOR

v.

MILE MRKSIC
MIROSLAV RADIC
VESELIN SLJIVANCANIN

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DECISION GRANTING RADIC’S MOTION TO POSTPONE DECISION ON PROVISIONAL RELEASE

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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Jan Wubben
Mr. Mark J. McKeon

Counsel for the Accused Mile Mrksic:
Mr. Miroslav Vasic

Counsel for the Accused Miroslav Radic:
Mr. Borivoje Borovic

The Accused Veselin Sljivancanin:

 

TRIAL CHAMBER II ("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 ("Tribunal"):

BEING SEISED OF the "Motion of Mr. Radic’s Defence Requesting Postponement of Issuing a Decision on the Motion for Provisional Release Filed on 19 June 2003" ("Motion"), filed confidentially and on an ex parte basis by Defence Counsel for the Accused Miroslav Radic (“Radic”);

NOTING that, in the Motion, Radic requests that the Trial Chamber postpone its decision on his application for provisional release, filed on 18 June 2003,1 until such time as the Office of the Prosecutor seeks leave to file a consolidated amended indictment against Radic, Mile Mrksic and Veselin Sljivancanin and all preliminary motions pursuant to Rule 72 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence ("Rules"), should there be any, are thereafter disposed of; 2

CONSIDERING that the Trial Chamber finds the arguments put forward by Radic persuasive;

FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS

PURSUANT TO Rule 54 of the Rules;

HEREBY GRANTS the Motion.

 

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

Dated this fifteenth day of July 2003,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands

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Wolfgang Schomburg
Presiding Judge

[Seal of the Tribunal]


1. Prosecutor v Mile Mrksic and Miroslav Radic, Case IT-95-13/1-PT, Defence Motion for Provisional Release, 18 June 2003.
2. Motion, par 24.