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Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Co-Prosecutors’ Notice of Appeal Against the Judgement of the Trial Chamber in the Case of Kaing Guek Eav Alias Duch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Neha Jain
Neha Jain*
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Georgetown University Law Center
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International Legal Materials , Volume 49 , Issue 6 , December 2010 , pp. 1683 - 1688
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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End notes

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia website (visited Nov. 28, 2010) http://www.eccc.gov.kh/english/cabinet/courtDoc/645/E188_2_EN.PDF.

1 Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, Case File No. 001/18-07-2007-ECCC/TC, Co-Prosecutors’ Notice of Appeal Against the Judgement of the Trial Chamber (Aug. 16, 2010), available at http://www.eccc.gov.kh/english/cabinet/courtDoc/645/E188_2_EN.PDF [hereinafter Notice of Appeal].

2 Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, Case File No. 001/18-07-2007-ECCC/TC, Judgement, ¶¶ 677, 679 (Trial Chamber July 26, 2010), available at http://www.eccc.gov.kh/english/cabinet/courtDoc/635/20100726_Judgement_Case_001_ENG_PUBLIC.pdf [hereinafter Judgement].

3 Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Internal Rules 105(3), 107(4) (Rev. 5, Feb. 9, 2010), available at http://www.eccc.gov.kh/english/cabinet/fileUpload/121/IRv5-EN.pdf [hereinafter Rules].

4 Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, Case File No. 001/18-07-2007-ECCC/SC, Co-Prosecutors’ Appeal Against the Judgement of the Trial Chamber (Oct. 13, 2010), available at http://www.eccc.gov.kh/english/cabinet/courtDoc/748/F10_EN.pdf [hereinafter Appeal Brief].

5 Rules 105(3), 107(4).

6 Law on the Establishment of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea art. 1, Oct. 27, 2004.

7 Judgment, ¶ 111.

8 Id. ¶ 567.

9 Id. ¶ 578.

10 Id. ¶¶ 579-81.

11 Id. ¶ 590.

12 Id. ¶ 595.

13 Id. ¶ 582.

14 Id. ¶¶ 596-600.

15 Id. ¶¶ 601-04.

16 Id. ¶ 605.

17 Id. ¶¶ 607-08.

18 Id. ¶¶ 609-16.

19 Id. ¶¶ 623-27.

20 Id. ¶¶ 629-33.

21 Theary Seng, Comrade Duch and the Killing Fields, Wall St. J. (Aug. 17, 2010), available at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703940904575395052402779036.html; 16,000 Deaths, 19 Years in Jail – Fury Greets Sentence for Pol Pot’s Executioner, Indep. (July 27, 2010), available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/16000-deaths-19-years-in-jail-ndash-fury-greets-sentence-for-pol-potsexecutioner-2036197.html; Alexandra Topping, Khmer Rouge Chief Jailer Sentenced for War Crimes, Guardian (July 26, 2010), available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/khmer-rouge-chief-jailer-war-crimes.

22 Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, Case File No. 001/18-07-2007-ECCC/TC, Notice of Appeal by the Co-Lawyers for Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch Against the Trial Chamber Judgement of 26 July 2010 (Aug. 24, 2010).

23 Notice of Appeal, ¶¶ 3-4.

24 Id. ¶¶ 5-6.

25 Id. ¶ 7.

26 Id. ¶¶ 3-4.

27 See Jennifer J. Clark, Zero to Life: Sentencing Appeals at the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, 96 Geo. L.J. 1685, 1693-94 (2008); Robert D. Sloane, Sentencing for the ‘Crime of Crimes’: The Evolving ‘Common Law’ of Sentencing of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 5 J. Int’l Crim. Just. 713, 725-26 (2007).

28 Prosecutor v. Galić, Judgement, Case No. IT-98-29-A (Int’l Crim. Trib. for the Former Yugoslavia Appeals Chamber Nov. 30, 2006).

29 Gacumbitsi v. Prosecutor, Judgement, Case No. ICTR-2001-64-A (July 7, 2006) [hereinafter Gacumbitsi Appeals Judgement].

30 Appeal Brief, ¶¶ 110-11.

31 See id. ¶ 111 (briefly describing the decisions).

32 Prosecutor v. Nikolić, Sentencing Judgement, Case No. IT-94-2-S (Int’l Crim. Trib. for the Former Yugoslavia Trial Chamber Dec. 18, 2003).

33 Sloane, supra note 27, at 722.

34 See, e.g., Allison Marston Danner, Constructing a Hierarchy of Crimes in International Criminal Law Sentencing, 87 Va. L. Rev. 415 (2001).

35 See, e.g., Prosecutor v. Nikolić, Case No. IT-02-60/1-S, Sentencing Judgement, ¶ 105 (persecution) (Int’l Crim. Trib. for the Former Yugoslavia Trial Chamber Dec. 2, 2003); Prosecutor v. Bisengimana, Case No. ICTR-00-60-T, Judgement and Sentence, ¶ 112 (extermination and murder) (Apr. 13, 2006).

36 Prosecutor v. Kayishema & Ruzindana, Case No. ICTR-95-1-A, Reasons for Judgement, ¶ 367 Appeals Chamber (June 1, 2001); Prosecutor v. Furundzija, Case No. IT-95-17/1-A, Judgement, ¶ 246 (Int’l Crim. Trib. for the Former Yugoslavia Appeals Chamber July 21, 2000); Prosecutor v. Stakić, Case No. IT-97-24-A, Judgement, ¶ 375 (Int’l Crim. Trib. for the Former Yugoslavia Appeals Chamber Mar. 22, 2006).

37 See Ralph Henham, Developing Contextualized Rationales for Sentencing in International Criminal Trials, 5 J. Int’l. Crim. Just. 757 (2007); Mark B. Harmon & Fergal Gaynor, Ordinary Sentences for Extraordinary Crimes, 5 J. Int’l. Crim. Just. 683 (2007).

38 See Clark, supra note 27, at 1704-05; Gacumbitsi Appeals Judgement, ¶¶ 334, 356.

39 Notice of Appeal, ¶¶ 5-6; Appeal Brief, ¶¶ 167-69.

40 Appeal Brief, ¶¶ 180-90.

41 Id. ¶ 191.

42 Notice of Appeal, ¶ 7.

43 Appeal Brief, ¶ 209.

1 Judgement, Case File No. 001/18-07-2007-ECCC/TC, Trial Chamber, 26 July 2010, E188 (“Judgement”), paras. 677, 679.

2 Internal Rules, Rev.5, 9 February 2010 (“Rules”), Rules 105(3), 106(2), 107(4).

3 Rules, Rule 105(3).

4 Judgement, paras. 596-598, 600.

5 Judgement, paras. 597, 599.

6 Judgement, paras. 601-605, 630.

7 Judgement, paras. 608-611, 629.

8 Co-Prosecutors’ Final Trial Submission, Case File No. 001/18-07-2007-ECCC/TC, Office of the Co-Prosecutors, 11 November 2009, E159/1, Sentencing, in general, and paras. 453-456, in particular.

9 Judgement, paras. 563-566, 568, 677.

10 Judgement, paras. 246, 366, 677.

11 Judgement, paras. 342-346, 677.

12 Rules, Rule 107(4).