Milosevic Defense Team Asks to Withdraw from Case
625867
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial plunged into fresh uncertainty Wednesday after two lawyers appointed to defend him against his will said they wanted to pull out of the case.
462705
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands AP) &#151; Slobodan Milosevic's court-appointed lawyers have asked to quit because they cannot properly defend an unwilling client, leaving the U.N. tribunal in a dilemma over how to conclude the most important war crimes trial in half a century in a way history will judge as fair.
157179
Slobodan Milosevic can once again lead his own defense at the UN war crimes tribunal but must accept a standby lawyer in case he becomes too ill to continue, appeals judges ruled Monday.
43004
The lawyers trying to defend Slobodan Milosevic have asked to be relieved of their duties, creating new hurdles for the troubled and drawn-out war crimes trial in The Hague.
251352
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is refusing to cooperate with two lawyers appointed to defend him before the U.N. war crimes tribunal - even as they prepare to call the first witness in his defense ...
403953
The lawyers appointed to defend Slobodan Milosevic in his war crimes trial said on Tuesday their relationship with the defendant had been irreparably damaged and renewed their plea to be allowed to withdraw from the case.
332916
The court-appointed lawyer of a firebrand Serb nationalist appealed to his client Tuesday to end the boycott of his war crimes trial, where he stands accused of unleashing a murderous campaign of ethnic cleansing in parts of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
669883
Judges at The Hague tribunal on Thursday imposed a defense counsel on former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to avoid further delays in his war crimes trial.
752502
A lawyer for ex-Chilean president Augusto Pinochet calls for the judge investigating him to be removed from the case.
529099
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The two lawyers representing Slobodan Milosevic filed papers Thursday (9 September), asking for permission to appeal their appointment by the UN tribunal.
464503
The UN war crimes tribunal is to impose a defence lawyer on Slobodan Milosevic, whose doctors say he is too ill to continue representing himself.
496773
Slobodan Milosevic&#39;s support group at home on Friday called a decision by the Netherlands-based UN war crimes tribunal to impose a defence lawyer on the former president a violation of his rights.
644065
Two British lawyers, Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins, have been appointed to defend former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague&#39;s UN tribunal.
726256
Judges trying Slobodan Milosevic  rejected Tuesday a bid by lawyers appointed to defend the  former Yugoslav president to withdraw from the case.
732615
Vladimir Lazarevic, one of four Serbian generals indicted by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, has decided to give himself up voluntarily, Serbia's prime minister said.
616706
Judges in the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic assigned two defence lawyers to the former Yugoslav president against his will after his ill health delayed the mammoth trial for months.
454532
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan  Milosevic condemned his war crimes trial as a "pure farce" on  Wednesday in a defiant finish to his opening defense statement  against charges of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.