Trial Report: Eleven

This report covers the week 7 February - 11 February

As previously reported, the state prosecutors requested an adjournment on Monday 7 February to allow the Director of Public Prosecutions time to study the official transcript of Friday's hearing so that he could decide whether or not to bring an application for Judge Hartzenberg to recuse himself from the case. An adjournment was granted until Wednesday 9 February when the prosecution announced its intention to bring such an application. The court adjourned again until Monday 14 February when the prosecutions application will be heard. If the state's application is to be successful they will have to show a reasonable suspicion of bias on behalf of the judge.

This report has been prepared by Chandr� Gould and Marlene Burger. Chandr� Gould is a research associate at the Centre for Conflict Resolution working on the Chemical and Biological Warfare Research Project. Marlene Burger is monitoring the trial as part of the CCR Chemical and Biological Warfare Research Project. The Chemical and Biological Warfare Research Project is funded by the Ford Foundation, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Norwegian Government

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