"The state of Georgia remains an extreme outlier in requiring that defendants prove they have mental retardation 'beyond a reasonable doubt'.
Lawyers acting for murder defendants do not expect to win many popularity contests, but nor, until recently, have they expected to be the subject of personal attacks by the press.
With the defendants this time enclosed in a soundproof cage fitted with a microphone controlled by the judge, Morsi had limited opportunity to question the authority of the court.
The defendants were portrayed as traitors working in the interests of foreign powers, with dozens of Palestinians charged in absentia in the same case.
However, Gardaí intervened and arrested the man following several warnings that he stay away from the defendants.
Gabry said that the initial trial also failed to investigate claims that the defendants had produced testimony under duress, and as a result "the court of cassation is unable to show how right or wrong the verdict is".
There is a group of lawyers and defendants who will be able to testify to this effect.
Training Most of the defendants, whom Babar called the "Crawley lot", visited him there, where they underwent terrorist training in explosives techniques and worked out how to get bomb components and bring them to the UK.
One alleged multiple fraud case at Southwark crown court has already been boycotted by barristers, leaving defendants facing the prospect of representing themselves.
The prospect of the laws being overturned has prompted defence lawyers to seek to delay trials involving defendants who may have already spent months in solitary confinement under harsh prison conditions formerly reserved for accused bikie associates.
Sample footage shot by undercover police of the defendants handling "items and packages passed about and handed to people in the street or pulling up in cars" was then shown to jurors.
