But to some, it has become a referendum on the career of Judge Keller, a former member of the Dallas County district attorney's office who was elected to the court in 1994 on a pro-prosecution platform and was later elevated to presiding judge.
Clarkson and Edwards are keen to stay in the game, they say, even as they come to terms with the reality that they will be unable to take on wrongdoing on a large scale, deprived of the attorney general's office as a platform for prosecution.
And the prosecution would be a public platform to expose the facts of the detention system, and its toxic effects.
The defendants' supporters are concerned that each trial is a platform for the prosecution, in effect using the court to stack the odds against the later defendants.
The U.K.'s director of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, said the Crown Prosecution Service, which prosecutes criminals for the state, will ask courts to consider tougher penalties for those who use social platforms like Twitter, Facebook and others to hurl abuse at people.
His books, particularly Platform, were quoted by the prosecution to show that hatred of Islam was a deep conviction.
His books, particularly his most recent, Platform, were quoted by the prosecution to show that his hatred of Islam was a deep conviction.
The Democratic platform condemned child labour and demanded prosecution of monopolies and federal aid for education.
Instead of the raised platform and assigned positions for judges, the prosecution and the accused, everyone sits around the same table.
The Democratic platform that was adopted called for the successful prosecution of the war and the postwar creation of a United Nations.
