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No Legal Immunity For Karadzic

span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "UN judges in The Hague, Netherlands, stated on Thursday that an immunity deal a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/876084.stm"Radovan Karadzic/a claims he made with a US peace envoy would a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfog99sG-4NVtaT3GNxSpZ0V33KAD9551CS80"not prevent the former Bosnian Serb leader's trial/a on genocide charges. The judges stated that  the deal "would be invalid under international law."/pp style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "Karadzic claims he cut a deal with Richard Holbrooke in 1996 to relinquish power in return for immunity from prosecution at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal./pp style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "Holbrooke, however, denies he ever made such a deal with Karadzic. Further, prosecutors say that even if the pact existed, it would have no legal weight at the court./pp style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "Karadzic is accused of masterminding Serb atrocities in the a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL21644464"1992-95 Bosnian war/a including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men./pp style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "Source: Thea href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfog99sG-4NVtaT3GNxSpZ0V33KAD9551CS80"Associated Press/a /p/span pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=vPVPmR"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=vPVPmR" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=DZQHO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=DZQHO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=jsZco"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=jsZco" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=AnakO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=AnakO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=HsTVo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=HsTVo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=ucEYO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=ucEYO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=KWoXo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=KWoXo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=7BSjO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=7BSjO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=BO6ko"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=BO6ko" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch/~4/489346128" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Fastcase Legal News on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).