Investigator’s Testimony Barred at Milosevic Trial
In a victory for former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, the U.N. war crimes tribunal excluded testimony from the prosecution’s senior investigator, saying it was based on inadmissible hearsay.
Kevin Curtis, the prosecution’s chief war crimes investigator for Kosovo, was to testify about sites where thousands of ethnic Albanians were allegedly killed by Serb forces during the 1999 war in the Serbian province.
But the judges ruled that his testimony would be irrelevant because Curtis was repeating stories he had heard from others.
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