Citation

Fournet C. J. Forensic Leg. Med. 2019; 69: e101852.

Affiliation

University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Netherlands. Electronic address: c.i.fournet@rug.nl.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jflm.2019.07.008

PMID

31733462

Abstract

In the light of the recent judgments issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), including two acquittals and one very recent condemnation of the accused on all charges, analysing and assessing evidentiary practice before the Court is all the more pressing. This article focuses on one particular type of evidence used by the Prosecution, namely, forensic evidence, to critically review how it has been used so far at the ICC and consider whether the prosecutorial strategy of focusing on a certain sample of crimes is finally paying off.

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Language: en

Keywords

Atrocity trials; Expert witnesses; Forensic evidence; International Criminal Court