Both sides say they hope to avoid personal nastiness, and they expect a straightforward trial that could last three to six weeks.
John Ashcroft, the attorney-general, has said that after a "relatively short and straightforward" trial in Birmingham, Mr Rudolph will face charges for the three Atlanta bombings.
Using a relation issued from the force versus penetration depth diagrams, the estimation of these three contact force parameters can be reduced to the estimation of two independent parameters which roles are well defined and distinct; therefore this estimation can be accomplished with a straightforward trial and error procedure.
Grisham has no more time than the creator of Jarndyce v Jarndyce would have had for a judicial system that allows straightforward trials to become feeding frenzies, where sharp practice and techniques such as "deposition warfare", in which lawyers with their meters running peck away at witnesses for hours, are shrugged off as part of the game.
A straightforward trial-and-error approach has a high risk of being time and chemical consuming due to the large number of parameters to be optimized.
What did happen, in the end, was something of a straightforward murder trial, stripped of the larger, inflammatory political aspects, leaving it up to 12 jurors to sort through a familiar assortment of evidence: witness testimony and forensic findings.
Courts, he believes, should stick to their basic function of applying laws, even unpleasant ones; they should not stray into politics or policymaking.Because of these views, it is tempting to hope that Mr Rehnquist will insist on a straightforward impeachment trial, uncontaminated by partisanship.
The case -- which initially appeared to be a straightforward murder trial, has become somewhat of a daytime drama, with sex, lies and ultimately, a brutal homicide.
"In essence we need straightforward clinical trials, as for any drug for any disease, but new ways of working will be needed to provide rapid and reliable answers in perhaps the most challenging outbreak we have ever encountered," he said.
"It's not a straightforward time-trial - it's quite technical in places.
This means you'd do a straightforward basic clinical trial on a small group of patients because these are not new compounds, they're known drugs".
