IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

 

 

Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge Richard May
Judge Mohamed Fassi Fihri

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
20 September 2001

PROSECUTOR

v.

DUSKO SIKIRICA

DAMIR DOSEN

DRAGAN KOLUNDZIJA

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ORDER ON DEFENCE MOTION FOR MEDICAL EXAMINATION

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Dirk Ryneveld
Ms. Julia Baly
Mr. Daryl Mundis

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Veselin Londrovic and Mr. Michael Greaves, for Dusko Sikirica
Mr. Vladimir Petrovic and Mr. Goran Rodic, for Damir Dosen
Mr. Ivan Lawrence and Mr. Jovan Ostojic, for Dragan Kolundzija

 

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 a confidential "Defence request for medical examination of the accused Damir Dosen pursuant to Rule 74 bis" filed by Damir Dosen on 11 September 2001 ("the Motion"),

NOTING that Rule 74 bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal requires that, in cases where the Trial Chamber orders medical examination of the accused, unless the Trial Chamber orders otherwise, the task shall be entrusted by the Registrar of the International Tribunal to an expert whose name appears on a list drawn up by the Registry,

CONSIDERING that it is in the interests of justice that the Trial Chamber be in possession of all factors that would assist it to evaluate the relevant sentence to be imposed on the accused,

PURSUANT TO Rule 74 bis of the Rules

HEREBY GRANTS the Motion and ORDERS as follows:

  1. a medical examination of the accused, Damir Dosen, shall be carried out and the Trial Chamber instructs the Registrar to entrust this task to an expert whose name appears on the list drawn up by the Registry of the International Tribunal; and
  2. a copy of the medical report shall be filed no later than Friday 5 October 2001.

 

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

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Patrick Robinson
Presiding

Dated this twentieth day of September 2001
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]