If he is found to have been sane, the presiding judges can sentence him to up to 21 years in prison, with a provision to keep him behind bars longer if he is still considered dangerous.
Unless he is prepared to invest the thick end of £50m a year for several years to come, he is likely to find himself presiding over decline.
Four years ago, along with her husband, Saul Haffner, a justice of the peace, she started Justices of the Peace of Connecticut, an organization that helps couples find people in their communities to preside over their weddings.
The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, B.A. 173 3, and the Reverend Samuel Johnson, B.A. 1714, became the first presidents of Dartmouth and King's College (Columbia), while the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson, B.A. 1706, and no fewer than five other graduates helped found and preside over the infant College of New Jersey Princetonn).
"Still got your voice, Andrea?" A dozen reporters dragged themselves onto the State Department plane home from Shanghai to find Powell presiding over the press seats, tending his entourage.
Now President Gorbachev will find President Yeltsin presiding most nights on one of the TV channels, leading a debating hall full of legislators, with a little bell for keeping order and interrupting for his own grand asides, just like Mr. Gorbachev does in the national debating hall.
To his surprise, he found Justice Cooperman presiding over a trial.
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide led a tense observance of Haiti's bicentennial, though many found little to celebrate in his presiding over what remains an impoverished and troubled nation.
Some of my favourite Nixons, however, are fictional, and oddly, many of them are found presiding over prisons, much as Nixon presided over the madhouse of 60s and 70s America.
The Germans found themselves presiding over a devastated country and a mountain of guilt.
