Dear readers – please find below a summary of the Taylor trial for the months of October and November 2010 written by Jennifer Easterday and Eline Houwen at the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice Initiative. 1. Overview [...]
December
1
2010
Charles Taylor Monthly Trial Report: August-September 2010
Dear readers – please find below a summary of the Taylor trial for the months of August and September 2010 written by Jennifer Easterday at the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice Initiative. 1. Overview The Taylor [...]
September
3
2010
Charles Taylor Monthly Trial Report: July 2010
Dear readers – please find below a monthy summary of the Taylor trial for July 2010 written by Elena Marrs at the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice Initiative. 1. Overview Trial Chamber II at the [...]
August
30
2010
Charles Taylor Monthly Trial Report: June 2010
Dear readers – please find below a monthy summary of the Taylor trial for June 2010 written by Elena Marrs at the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice Initiative. 1. Overview Trial Chamber II at the [...]
June
30
2010
Charles Taylor Monthly Trial Report: May 2010
Dear readers – please find below a monthy summary of the Taylor trial for May 2010 by our friends Jennifer Easterday and Elena Marrs at the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice Initiative. 1. Overview Trial [...]
May
25
2010
Charles Taylor Monthly Trial Report: April 2010
Charles Taylor Monthly Trial Report (April 1, 2010 – April 30, 2010)[1] 1. Overview The Defense case moved ahead steadily in April, with three new witnesses taking the stand for Charles Taylor. By the end of this reporting period, Taylor’s Defense team had called a total of eleven witnesses. Much of the testimony this [...]
May
24
2010
Charles Taylor Monthly Trial Report: March 2010
Charles Taylor Monthly Trial Report (February 22, 2010 – March 31, 2010)[1] 1. Overview The Defense called its second witness, Yankuba Samateh, a.k.a. Yanks Smythe, on Monday February 22, 2010. By the second week of March, the Defense had increased the pace at which it was calling witnesses, with six witnesses completing testimony during this [...]
January
4
2010
Charles Taylor on the Stand: An Overview of His Examination-In-Chief (by U.C. Berkeley monitors)
Thanks to the U.C. Berkeley Monitoring Program, below is an extensive and detailed overview of Charles Taylor’s testimony as he took the stand in his own defense in his current trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. This report, by Berkeley trial monitors, Kimberley Punt and Jennifer Easterday, covers Mr. Taylor’s direct testimony, where his [...]
July
7
2009
The Prosecution’s Case: What Happened?
Charles Taylor is charged with 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in Sierra Leone from November 30, 1996, to January 18, 2002. The Prosecutor alleges that Mr. Taylor is responsible for crimes which include murdering and mutilating civilians, including cutting off their limbs; using [...]
March
3
2009
Trial Report: Dec. ’08-Feb. ’09
After 205 days—or 41 full weeks—of court sessions, examination of the Prosecution’s 91st and final witness concluded on January 30, 2009. Prosecutor Stephen Rapp said his team had “achieved was [they] set out to do.”(1) Proceedings ran smoothly and efficiently in these final weeks. The Defendant missed a single day of trial on the last [...]
