He maintained his innocence as his trial began in July 2001, but later in the proceedings he changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
I have never quite understood the obsession among many rugby teams with dragging each other's trousers off (and much, much worse) but it will be interesting to see how a glut of criminal proceedings might change locker room traditions.
Perhaps to lend a leavening distance, or to allow for the possibility of a bit of flirtation, Rosenthal's own role in the blighted proceedings has been changed to that of a woman, Liz.
But more than a month after they were informed of the foreclosure proceedings, nothing has changed.
Apparently rattled by a threat by five backbench congressmen from the ruling Christian Democratic party to start impeachment proceedings against him, General Pinochet changed his mind.
This was that Ms Knox and her boyfriend of six days had joined forces with a third person, a Côte d'Ivoire-born dope dealer, Rudy Guede, in an occult ritual and/or sex game (the detail changed as proceedings evolved), and that they murdered Ms Kercher when she declined to join in.
Thursday's proceedings won't change that - if anything, the events will have reinforced the divisions in the political landscape.
The legal proceedings in that case markedly changed the conversation about the validity of surrogacy contracts.
And midway through the proceedings, the official website was changed to show the switch in names.
Over the years witnesses have disappeared, withdrawn from proceedings, refusing to testify, or changed their testimony.
