After a full year of testimony, the prosecution has still not finished presenting its case against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the International War Crimes Tribunal. Chief Judge Richard May has imposed a deadline of May for the prosecutors to finish, but that means Milosevic will get equal time--at least 15 months--to present his own case. So the earliest the case could be decided is September 2004, at which point all the lawyers involved will start writing their memoirs, which means the year 2006 will be the year somebody has to actually read them, which means the Ken Burns PBS documentary can't be expected until 2009.
- Joe Bob Briggs
