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PROSECUTOR v SAM HINGA NORMAN & ORS - KONDEWA - ADDITIONAL REVISED ORDER FOR FILING OF DEFENCE PRE-TRIAL BRIEF - Case No.SCSL-04-14-PT [2004] SCSL 71 (22 April 2004)

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THE TRIAL CHAMBER

KONDEWA-ADDITIONAL REVISED ORDER FOR FILING OF DEFENCE PRE-TRIAL BRIEF

THE TRIAL CHAMBER (“Trial Chamber”) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”);

RECALLING the Trial Chamber’s Order for Filing Pre-Trial Briefs of 13 February 2004, in which it ordered that the Office of the Prosecutor (“Prosecution”) file a pre-trial brief on or before 2 March 2004 and that each Defence team file its pre-trial brief on or before 23 March 2004, pursuant to Rule 54 and Rule 73 bis (F) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court (“Rules”);

NOTING that the Prosecution filed its pre-trial brief on 2 March 2004;

RECALLING the Revised Order for the Filing of Defence Pre-Trial Briefs of 22 March 2004 (“Order of 22 March 2004”), in which the Trial Chamber ordered that the pre-trial briefs of each Defence team be filed two weeks prior to the date of the commencement of trial;

NOTING that, however, the Defence for Accused Allieu Kondewa filed a pre-trial brief on 22 March 2004, in which the Defence expressed its difficulties in preparing a complete pre-trial brief until the Prosecution fulfils its disclosure obligation[1];

NOTING the Order to the Prosecution to File a Supplemental Pre-Trial Brief of 1 April 2004;

CONSIDERING that the Trial Chamber, and indeed opposing counsel, will be more greatly assisted by a well-prepared, detailed pre-trial brief rather than a pre-trial brief drafted without the benefit of extensive disclosure and sufficient pre-trial preparation;

FINDING therefore that it is in the interest of justice to revise the Order of 22 March 2004;

HEREBY ORDERS proprio motu, that Defence for Allieu Kondewa shall file any supplement to its pre-trial brief, if it wishes to do so, two weeks prior to the date for the commencement of trial.

[1] Prosecutor v. Sam Hinga Norman, Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa, SCSL-04-14-PT, Pre-Trial Brief of Defendant Allieu Kondewa, 22 March 2004, paras 2-3 and para. 7.