Permitted to represent himself, Mr. Milosevic has used his trial to harangue his captors and rally his supporters.
The former Serbian leader has tried to use his trial, which is televised in Serbia, to his political advantage at home.
Had Mr. McVeigh claimed credit and used his trial to make a political statement about Ruby Ridge and Waco, he might have had more success at achieving martyrdom.
Hitler used his trial for staging the Munich putsch to propagate National Socialism and went to jail a martyr for the Nazi movement.
Asked by reporters if she was concerned he would attempt to use his trial as a platform, Ardern said she assumed that was his intention but hoped the media would deny him that kind of coverage.
Mr. Milosevic used his trial in The Hague as a soapbox to influence politics, spewing incendiary, provocative remarks about Bosnians, Croats and Kosovars, as well as the injustice of the international community.
He refused questions on anything other than the prisoner transfer and refused to reply to questions about what would happen if Saddam, like Slobodan Milosevic, tried to use his trial as an arena for self-justification.
I cannot agree that there is anything in the Due Process Clause or the Sixth Amendment that requires the States to subordinate the solemn business of conducting a criminal prosecution to the whimsicalalbeit voluntarycaprice of every accused who wishes to use his trial as a vehicle for personal or political self-gratification.
And the last editor to be imprisoned used his trial as a magnificent platform to trounce his accusers, calling for changes that would, in effect, shift power from the unelected and unaccountable to the elected and accountable.The goal, say Iran's more dedicated reformers, has now moved beyond easing rules and regulations desirable though that still is towards institutional change.
Breivik also used his trial as a platform from which to broadcast his ideology.
Unlike many past presidential contenders who have published campaign books over the years, he is aggressively using his autobiography, "Four Trials," which has just reached bookstores, as a fund-raising tool.
