And the voter-photo-I.D. law has been promoted as a way to combat voter fraud — even though, as the trial in that case demonstrated, there is no real fraud problem.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston halted a hemophilia trial financed by Transkaryotic Therapies Inc. earlier this month because of the controversy, even though the trial was not using adenoviruses.
Cakaj said that even though the trial dealt with events that occurred a decade or more ago it would raise issues that were relevant now.
The effect has been lasting: even though the trial was two years ago and the meter has been removed, he now works from home more in the mornings and walks to the market, he said.
"Even though the trial was possibly only ever going to end in one way" – Eichmann was hanged on 1 June 1962 and his ashes scattered at sea – "the awareness raised was astonishing and important.
Colorado's highest court ruled yesterday that the judge in the rape trial of the basketball star Kobe Bryant was justified in barring the news media from publishing court documents detailing the sex life of Mr. Bryant's accuser even though the trial court itself had accidentally released the information to the public.
In a 5-to-1 decision in 1999, for example, the judges approved the conviction of a man in a series of felonies even though the trial judge did not hold a hearing to determine if he was competent to stand trial.
Kathryn Maitland, professor of tropical paediatric infectious disease at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, St Mary's in London, could not believe it when she got a call from the independent data monitoring committee, which had looked at the interim results and decided the outcome was very clear, even though the trial had not been completed.
To review important findings, or lessons, that were learned about measures of response, design, conduct, and analysis of a randomized, controlled trial (RCT), even though the trial failed to demonstrate efficacy of d-penicillamine.
Nonetheless, he asked the district attorney's office to plea bargain for a milder sentence, even though the trial was over and the time for such bargaining had long passed.
