The case raises questions about corruption at the highest level, says our correspondent, so it is almost certain that this will be a politically managed trial as well as a criminal one.
SF and KP undertook recruitment and data collection and managed trial processes.
The TMs were based in academic research units and managed trial data collection via telephone, post, email and SMS text messages.
Their judges hear evidence, manage trials, make factual findings, provide appropriate remedies and interpret and apply the law.
Richman added that judges have "an enormous amount of discretion" on how they manage trials and what evidence they let in, and that it often reflects what they think of the case.
I knew people who had entered clinical research some years previously and they had done very well, climbing the ladder toward managing trials reasonably quickly.
"He brings to the table a particular acumen," explains Bob Jesse, a former Oracle executive who is now a board member of the Usona Institute, a nonprofit organization that does what pharmaceutical companies usually do: in this case, funding, sponsoring, and managing trials of psilocybin, with the goal of supplying the market if a version of the drug does win approval.
While we might have learnt more by including this group within our sample, we opted not to because our main focus was on the people directly concerned with designing and managing trials.
Doar, which provides consulting services on courtroom design, also offers software that helps lawyers prepare and manage trial material and do jury research.
"We're pleased," says Doug Schoettinger, managing trial counsel for Dow Corning, one implant manufacturer.
