IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge David Hunt
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
21 October 1999
v.
BLAGOJE SIMIC
MILAN SIMIC
MIROSLAV TADIC
STEVAN TODOROVIC
SIMO ZARIC
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ORDER DENYING MOTIONS FOR ORDERS OF ASSISTANCE
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The Office of the Prosecutor:Mr. Grant Niemann
Ms. Nancy Paterson
Ms. Suzanne Hayden
Ms. Mary MacFadyen
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Slobodan Zecevic and Mr. Eugene OSullivan, for Milan Simic
Mr. Igor Pantelic and Mr. Novak Lukic,, for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Deyan Ranko Brashich, for Stevan Todorovic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic and Mr. Aleksander Lazarevic, for Simo Zaric
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"),
BEING SEISED of two Motions filed on behalf of the accused, Stevan Todorovic, on 21 and 22 September 1999, seeking Orders for the production of documents and witnesses addressed to the Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [Serbia and Montenegro] and "the Security Force for Bosnia and Hercegovina" ("the Motions"), both stating that these documents and witnesses are required "in the event that an evidentiary hearing be had relating to [matters then subject to interlocutory appeal]",
NOTING the "Decision on appeal by Stevan Todorovic against the oral decision of 4 March 1999 and the written decision of 25 March 1999 of Trial Chamber III" delivered by the Appeals Chamber on 13 October 1999, dismissing the interlocutory appeal,
CONSIDERING therefore that there is to be no evidentiary hearing in this matter,
HEREBY DISMISSES the Motions.
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Patrick Robinson
Presiding
Dated this twenty-first day of October 1999
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]