After The Trial
Once the court had pronounced the sentences, the case could have been closed. In fact, this was only the beginning. One of the issues with the trial was that if it had been held in an American court with standard United States of American federal standards on jurisprudence, then the mock trials used for obtaining statements and confessions alone would have placed the trial in serious jeopardy of being declared a mistrial or having the charges thrown out of court entirely.
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