IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Decision of:
22 September 2000
PROSECUTOR
v.
DUSKO SIKIRICA
DAMIR DOSEN
DRAGAN KOLUNDIJA
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DECISION GRANTING REQUEST FOR ADMISSION
OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
WITH RESPECT TO DUSKO SIKIRICA
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Dirk Ryneveld
Mr. Daryl Mundis
Ms. Julia Baly
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Veselin Londrovic, for Dusko Sikirica
Mr. Vladimir Petrovic, for Damir Dosen
Mr. Duan Vucicevic, for Dragan Kolundija
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 the "Prosecutions Motion for Admission of Documentary Evidence with Respect to Dusko Sikirica" ("the Motion"), filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 7 August 2000, seeking admission into evidence of certain documents set out therein, and filed pursuant to the Decision Granting Request for Admission of Documentary Evidence issued by the Trial Chamber in respect of the accused Dragan Kolundzija and Damir Dosen on 1 August 2000,
NOTING the "Defense Response to Prosecutions Motion for Judicial Notice of Adjudicated Facts and Admission of Documents" filed by counsel for the accused, Dusko Sikirica, on 4 September 2000, in which the defendant challenged the authenticity, reliability, relevance and probative value of the documents,
HAVING HEARD the oral arguments of the parties at a hearing on 14 September 2000,
CONSIDERING that the issues of reliability, relevance and probative value are matters for the Trial Chamber to determine during the trial,
PURSUANT TO Rules 54 and 73 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules"),
HEREBY GRANTS THE MOTION AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this twenty-second day of September 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]