{"id":2114,"date":"2017-03-30T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2017-03-30T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:32:06","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"And the waiting goes on \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div id=\"google_language_translator\" class=\"default-language-en\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MKarnavas_Appeal.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2117\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MKarnavas_Appeal.jpg?resize=189%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MKarnavas_Appeal.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MKarnavas_Appeal.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MKarnavas_Appeal.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 85vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>Oral arguments in <em>Prli<\/em><em>\u0107<\/em><em> et al.<\/em> concluded this Tuesday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Appeals Chamber \u2013 some 12 years since I began representing Dr. Jadranko Prli\u0107.\u00a0 The Appeal Judgement is expected by November.\u00a0 When all is said and done, it will have taken over 13 years from the time the accused turned themselves over to the ICTY to the conclusion of the appeal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What a journey!\u00a0 Lawyers, assistants, investigators, and interns have come and gone.\u00a0 Babies born, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers departed. Heart attacks suffered, kidneys replaced, weight gained, hair lost. Engagements, affairs, marriages, and divorces. And wrinkles, lots of wrinkles. No one spared.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Prli<\/em><em>\u0107<\/em><em> et al. <\/em>was a large case.\u00a0 But so are most of the mass atrocity cases before the international tribunals and courts. It\u2019s the nature of the beast: large, complex, time-consuming, resource-draining, energy-robbing cases that require enormous commitment and, in no small measure, personal sacrifice. Forget about your domestic practice: gone, unless you have a big firm with partners and associates to mind the store and stock the shelves during long periods of absence.\u00a0 Hard enough to keep your head above the water when a case is in an active stage \u2013 such as the pre-trial stage where you are trying to get a handle on the case while also searching for witnesses and evidence \u2013 sometimes without a clear vision or aim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And all the reading.\u00a0 You are either trying to find the needles in the haystack (usually full of boring and useless material) or trying to get on top of a topic or discipline which is completely foreign to your educational and professional background \u2013 such as military science, political economics, or demographics.\u00a0 It is not enough to just know about the events of the case, you must also learn the history of the country and perhaps region, the political, economic, and administrative structures, the people and their cultures, and, above all, the historical context of the events. Nothing happens and no one functions in a vacuum.\u00a0 Putting the case \u2013 and more specifically the client\u2019s position, actions, and legal and factual responsibility \u2013 in context is perhaps the single most challenging aspect of defending an accused during the trial proceedings or representing a convicted person on appeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the years, there were times when I questioned why I put myself through all the trouble to find a clever, out-of-the-box legal argument, to go through 10 or 15 or more drafts to get the written submissions just right, or to rack my brain in trying to craft a cross-examination strategy, which, if properly executed, would yield some benefit in advancing the overall theory of the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Worse yet was the frustration at times in dealing with the Trial Chamber judges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frustration is an understatement.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icty.org\/case\/prlic\/4#custom6\" target=\"_blank\">appeal submissions<\/a> are public, so I am not revealing anything that is not in the open. Preparing for the appellate oral arguments was to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\u00a0 I am sure I am not alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having devoted the better part of 5 years in court trying this case, having put on 8 months of a defense case under the most stressful of circumstances (the judges had us on a stop-watch approach, often imposing ridiculous limitations on the time to conduct direct or cross-examination), and then seeing that it was all ignored by the Trial Chamber is disheartening.\u00a0 It is disheartening to think that this Trial Chamber of the ICTY \u2013 a tribunal designed to contribute to the protection of human rights \u2013 would disregard the humanistic values rooted in the fair trial rights of the accused. Yet, it did. Repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite these challenges and sacrifices, I am thankful that I have had the opportunity to be part of this endeavor to create and foster a rational and fair international criminal law system, where the human rights of all \u2013 including the accused and convicted persons on appeal \u2013 are fully respected, however inconvenient.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for <em>Prli<\/em><em>\u0107<\/em><em> et al.<\/em>, it is now up to the Appeals Chamber to safeguard the legal and moral integrity and legitimacy of the proceedings.\u00a0 All we asked for was a full and fair assessment of the facts the Trial Chamber inexplicably and unjustifiably ignored.\u00a0 A tall, tall order considering the magnitude of the case and the unprecedented scale of the Trial Chamber\u2019s failure to consider all relevant evidence: <em>to assess it and weigh it in its totality and in context<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The waiting goes on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/comments2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-919\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/comments2.png?resize=274%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oral arguments in Prli\u0107 et al. concluded this Tuesday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Appeals Chamber \u2013 some 12 years since I began representing Dr. Jadranko Prli\u0107.\u00a0 The Appeal Judgement is expected by November.\u00a0 When all is said and done, it will have taken over 13 years from the time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/waiting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the waiting goes on \u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[5,7],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icty","category-international-criminal-law","tag-icty","tag-international-criminal-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>And the waiting goes on \u2026 - michaelgkarnavas.net\/Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/waiting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"And the waiting goes on \u2026 - michaelgkarnavas.net\/Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oral arguments in Prli\u0107 et al. concluded this Tuesday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Appeals Chamber \u2013 some 12 years since I began representing Dr. Jadranko Prli\u0107.\u00a0 The Appeal Judgement is expected by November.\u00a0 When all is said and done, it will have taken over 13 years from the time &hellip; Continue reading &quot;And the waiting goes on \u2026&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/waiting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"michaelgkarnavas.net\/Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-30T19:22:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-03-30T19:32:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/michaelgkarnavas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MKarnavas_Appeal-169x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael G. 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