IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson

Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
27 January 2000

PROSECUTOR

v.

DARIO KORDIC
MARIO CERKEZ

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ORDER FOR VIEWING OF VIDEO TAPE EVIDENCE
AT THE DETENTION UNIT

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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., and Ms. Ksenija Turkovic, for Dario Kordic
Mr. Bozidar Kovacic and Mr. Goran Mikulicic, for Mario Cerkez

 

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 ("International Tribunal"),

BEING SEISED of a request by counsel for the accused Dario Kordic and Mario Cerkez for permission to view a video tape proposed to be tendered as evidence in these proceedings ("the video tape") with their clients in the United Nations Detention Unit after the adjournment of court proceedings on 27 January 2000 ("the Request"),

HAVING HEARD the parties with regard to the Request on 27 January 2000,

NOTING that the advice of the Registrar has been sought and that the Trial Chamber is advised that the Request can be accommodated,

PURSUANT TO Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence

HEREBY GRANTS the Request and ORDERS the Registrar to:

  1. Make available to the accused Dario Kordic and Mario Cerkez and their counsel the facilities for viewing the video tape at the United Nations Detention Unit after the adjournment of court proceedings on 27 January 2000; and

  2. Arrange permission for counsel for the accused Dario Kordic and/or Mario Cerkez to bring the video tape into the United Nations Detention Unit for viewing.

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

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Richard May
Presiding

Dated this twenty-seventh day of January 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]