Liberia: Judges Order Prosecutors To Disclose To The Defense All New Documents They Intend To Use In Cross-Examination of Charles Taylor

Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today ordered prosecutors to disclose to the defense all new documents that they intend to use in the cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor who is responding to charges that he was involved in a joint criminal enterprise with rebel forces who waged an 11-years rebel war in Sierra Leone.

In delivering the Chamber's ruling, presiding judge Justice Richared Lussick said that the prosecution's "piecemeal disclosure of individual documents" was unacceptable.

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