Reuters: Karadizic to run own defense
Given the ICC's pathetic track record at convicting and punishing these clowns, this trial could generate a lot of interesting vbets...
- What are the odds that Karadzic gets sentenced?
- What are the odss that he actually serves time?
- What are the odds that his "health" holds up through the course of the trial?
- If his health doesn't hold up, what physical and/or mental ailment will ultimately free him of having to complete his trial?
- What is the over/under for the duration of the trial?
- What is the over/under for the number of chief legal advisors he will hire and fire?
- What the over/under on the number of judges that International Criminal Court will appoint and remove through the course of the trial?
Any others?
Quote:
Karadzic to run own defence, gets shave, haircut
By Ivana Sekularac and Ellie Tzortzi
1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Radovan Karadzic will conduct his own defence in the Hague tribunal and is convinced he will be cleared of the charges of genocide, relatives and associates of the war crimes suspect said on Wednesday.
Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-95 Bosnia war, was arrested in Serbia on Monday after 11 years on the run.
He was one of three war crimes fugitives from the Yugoslav wars, their arrest a key condition for Serbia to move towards European Union membership. He is currently in a Belgrade prison awaiting extradition, which could come sometime this weekend.
Karadzic's lawyer in Serbia, Svetozar Vujacic, said his client was in good mental and physical condition. He was not talking to investigators, but "defending himself with silence."
"He is going to have a legal team in Serbia but will defend himself during his trial at The Hague," Vujacic told Reuters.
"He is convinced that with the help of God he will win."
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