Despite objections, STL chamber accepts report, Philips testifies
A heated argument over the submission of a new report into evidence carried on into its second day Thursday at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Defense counsel Dorothee Le Fraper du Hellen, whose client Hassan Merhi is one of four accused of complicity in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, had argued the previous day that the prosecution’s report should not be tendered into evidence, nor should its author, John Edward Philips, be allowed to testify on its contents. Philips’ report had been commissioned after Le Fraper du Hellen’s cross-examination of prosecution analyst Andrew Donaldson, in which she…
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