Posted on 07/25/2002 2:42:18 AM PDT by Banat
But zhabo is correct in assuming something fishy is going on here. It seems teh prosecution is so worried about Slobo's ability to defend himself that it is they who are suggesting Slobo take it easy and NOT FIGHT SO HARD IN COURT!
From: Milosevic in "serious risk" of heart attack, U.N. medical examination finds
The tribunal recommended that Milosevic, who has led his own defense against war crimes charges, appoint legal counsel to reduce his workload.
Responding angrily in court, Milosevic said he had never sought medical examination "not even when I suffered high fever." He again refused to appoint a lawyer saying the court "should not harbor any illusions that I am asking for anything."
Expressing concern, judge Patrick Robinson of Jamaica suggested Milosevic accept an assistant to "share cross-examination of witnesses." Milosevic often spends several hours in cross-examination and works weekends preparing his case.
"His workload must be reduced and the medical treatment by a cardiologist is most advisable ... the accused should have such treatment," May said. The court will await further testing and "consider any option that may be available for the future conduct of the trial."
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The jamin' Jamaican Judge (I am sure Jamaica is know the world over for the quality and hard work of its criminal justice systemm) would be upset that Slobo works hard (Eh Mon, light a ganja! relax!). And isn't intriguing how the British Judge May want's to get a medical excuse to get Slobo away from conducting his own defense?
The Bogomils were a religious heresy and not an ethnic identifier though the first Bogomils may have been Bulgarian Slavs which explains the origin of the Bogomil name? Bogomils were dualists much like the Manicheans and Arian Christians which many barbarian tribes were (most think the Germans who overran the Roman empire were pagans in fact many were Arian Christians) Some say that the Cathars of Southern France were inspired by the Bogomils after the Eastern and Western Romans and barbarians scattered the Bogomils. All speculation of course.
Snapshots Of A Nightmare "There is evil there that does not sleep."
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