LR attorney to advise former official in Sierra Leone
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A Little Rock attorney is serving as a
defense adviser for a man accused of war crimes in the African nation of Sierra Leone.
John Wesley Hall left Wednesday to serve as defense counsel for Samuel Hinga Norman -- if Norman decides he needs advice.
Norman is the country`s former interior minister and is the most
prominent of eleven men on trial in the first United Nations-backed war crimes trial.
The trial began June third. Norman is representing himself but Hall was selected to act as a standby attorney. Hall knows the principal defender in the case, and that`s how he was chosen for the duty.
