Prosecutor Matt Halling admitted that in their final case they had placed Jakup Krasniqi on charges of making threats instead of Hashim Thaci.
"Thaci's defense in the transcript... had found an error in our final file where we had incorrectly placed Krasniqi's contribution and had mistaken it for the threats that Thaci had made. That is, we should not have said that it was a contribution that Krasniqi had made," Halling said.
Halling said they don't want to say they don't make mistakes when implicating people regarding their contributions, but added that none of the judicial evidence they have can be undone.
"We do not want to say that we never make any mistakes when we involve individuals regarding the contribution. However, we cannot undo all the judicial evidence we have," he said.
However, before that, Halling said that Krasniqi was part of the General Staff like all the other defendants.
"Jakup Krasniqi was part of the General Staff like all the accused," he said.
The prosecutor said that the defendants chose to be part of the Headquarters for a long period of time, while the crimes for which the charges are being filed in this court case were taking place.
"They chose to be part of the General Staff for a long period of time while the crimes for which charges are being filed in this court case continued to be committed in accordance with the communications, orders and decisions of the General Staff," the Prosecutor said.
He added that what the General Staff did was individual responsibility.
"What the General Staff did certainly has individual responsibility. The accused do not have to be identified by name in every single piece of evidence we have to conclude that they made a criminal contribution," he said.
He said that it is not true that they focused only on incriminating evidence and ignored exculpatory evidence.
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