In its last round, the wrestling trial provided several final show business moments.
Markets thrive on information, and the trial provided plenty about Microsoft's misdeeds.
But we now know the Soviet cables decoded before the trial provided no hard evidence of Ethel's complicity.
So did Abramovich, and the trial provided a lot of genuinely new material on how he built up Sibneft.
True, the trial provided a rare public glimpse at the corrupt nexus of Big Politics and Big Media - of which the Times is of course a charter member.
The trial provided some answers on why the police officers fired: They mistakenly believed there was a gun in Mr. Bell's car.
Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, said that the "trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush administration".
Although the Nuremberg trial provided the first extensive German documentary evidence, it was not the first information available about the extermination of European Jewry.
Although the Nuremberg trial provided substantial documentary evidence about the Holocaust, that information was not highlighted either during the trial or in the press coverage of the trial.
The District Judge's secret interviews during the trial provided a select few with inside information about the case, information that enabled them and anyone they shared it with to anticipate rulings before the Judge announced them to the world.
Bobbitt's Machiavellian prince would quite happily endorse drone strikes, mass interception of communications or the imprisonment of foreign subjects without trial, provided these actions served "the common good" of the republic and preserved the state.
