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[Open session]
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[The accused present]
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[Upon commencing at 9.04 a.m.]
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Good morning. We'll take appearances first, please.
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Good morning, your Honours, learned friends on the other side. For the Prosecution this morning, Maja Dimitrova, Nicholas Koumjian and Joseph F Kamara.
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Good morning, Madam President, your Honours, counsel opposite. For the Defence today, Courtenay Griffiths; with me, Mr Silas Chekera, Ms Logan Hambrick and Mr Morris Anyah.
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Mr Griffiths, welcome back to the Court, and I hope that you are feeling much better this morning.
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Well, what I can say, Madam President, is this: I'm not feeling 100 per cent and there may come a time during the course of the day when, unfortunately, I might have to ask for an adjournment.
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Mr Griffiths, I'm very sympathetic with your illness, but I, for one, think that the time has come where you should delegate one of your other experienced lawyers to take over the in-chief questioning of this witness if you become ill again.
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Very well.
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Mr Griffiths, is your computer okay?
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I think so. I'm getting a transcript for Friday, 18 June 2010. I don't know if it's the same for everybody else.
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So am I, but I notice that it is today's transcript. It's just the date that's wrong.
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Are we having problems with LiveNote? I guess not. Let me just establish. No, there isn't anything wrong with the LiveNote and the apparent errors will be corrected in due course.
Mr Sesay, good morning, we continue with your testimony this morning. And I remind you of the oath you took to tell the truth. It's still binding on you today.
Please proceed, Mr Griffiths.
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