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Jul 25, 2008
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 25 (UPI) -- The lawyer who prosecuted former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said that Radovan Karadzic should be allowed to defend himself if he wishes. "If Karadzic' decides to defend himself, that's a right he has according to the statute. The court will decide how to allow him to use that right," Geoffrey Nice told the BBC. Milosevic died in 2006 more than three years after his trial began. Olga Kavran, a spokeswoman for The Hague tribunal, said that the court always objects to defendants representing themselves, Tanjug reported. "A lot of evidence is put forward, the majority written documents, while the trial itself is a combination of procedures of ordinary and civil law, and lawyers have to know both areas," Kavran said. Tanjug also reported that Karadzic's lawyer, Svetozar Vujacic, claims...
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