Some Western observers who attended the trials said that they were fair and that the guilt of the accused had been established.

The trial ends in acquittals after one board member admits to receiving the piano, but says it "couldn't play a note."

The doctor who lead the trial says that proves the patch does work.

A trial "however desirable was simply no longer possible", he said.

The trial said the men were trained at Starnberg school in shooting, radio, forging, sabotage and parachuting.

Those who watched that 1996 trial say Judge Wright mostly came across as bright and serious and in full command of her courtroom.

Some of the spectators who sat quietly though the trial and deliberations said they had just come to see whether justice would be done.

A trial to the death, I think,' she was saying.

But whatever its outcome, the trial will say nothing about the newer antipsychotics' effects in nonpsychotic disorders, for which they are increasingly being prescribed.

A trial, says Malcolm, "is a contest between competing narratives".