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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.