Milosevic Lawyer Fired Over Suggestion of Bias
A lawyer appointed to help ensure a fair trial for Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague was fired for giving interviews that war crimes judges said suggested bias against the former Yugoslav president.
Michail Wladimiroff was quoted in a Dutch newspaper last month as saying prosecutors had already produced enough evidence to secure a conviction on charges related to Kosovo. And a Bulgarian magazine quoted Wladimiroff as saying Milosevic’s chances of being cleared were “negligible.”
Judges had named Wladimiroff and two other attorneys for Milosevic after he refused defense counsel.
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