| Conviction(s) | Crimes ag • Skip to content The Accused- Charles Ghankay Taylor: Leader or Head of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) from the late s onward; President of the Republic of Liberia from August 2, , until August 11,
The Judges- Justice Teresa Doherty
- Justice Julia Sebutinde
- Justice Richard Lussick
- Justice El Hadji Malick Sow, Alternate
The Prosecution- Brenda J. Hollis, Chief Prosecutor
- Mohamed Bangura, Prosecutor
- Nicholas Koumjian, Prosecutor
- Kathryn Howarth, Prosecutor
- Leigh Lawrie, Prosecutor
- Christopher Santora, Prosecutor
- Ruth Mary Hackler, Prosecutor
- Ula Nathai-Lutchman, Prosecutor
- Nathan Quick, Prosecutor
- Maja Dimitrova, Case Manager
The Defense- Courtenay Griffiths, Lead Defense Counsel
- Terry Munyard, Defense Counsel
- Morris Anyah, Defense Counsel
- Silas Chikera, Defense Counsel
- James Supuwood, Defense Counsel
Key Organizations Referred to during Taylor’s Trial- AFL: Armed Forces of Liberia
- AFRC: Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. Founded b
• Life and times of Charles TaylorCharles McArthur Ghankay Taylor became president of Liberia in July of , taking over three quarters of the vote in an election international observers adjudicated to be fair.
The election of his fellow National Patriotic Party candidates to a majority of legislative seats in the National Assembly marked what many hoped would be the end of seven years of civil war. Childhood Born on 28 January, in Arthington, near Liberia’s capital of Monrovia, Taylor was one of seven children. His father, Nelson, worked as a teacher, lawyer, and judge and was an Americo-Liberian, a group of descendents from Liberia’s original nineteenth-century settlers. His mother, Zoe, was a native Gola tribeswoman. Studies in Monrovia did not go well, he was expelled from his secondary school for unruly behaviour. But as he grew older, he was drawn to the history of Liberia and its connections to the United States. In , the year-old Taylor arrived in Boston through a 
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