1.   Before the trial began Wednesday, Bishara promised to use the courtroom as a forum for his ideas.

2.   A larger panel of appellate judges has used the courtroom once since it opened a year ago.

3.   New York magazine had a higher purpose in mind when it used an empty courtroom recently to stage a mock trial of O.J. Simpson.

4.   But the accused used the courtroom to put the apartheid state on trial.

5.   The accused in the so called Rivonia Trial used the courtroom to put the apartheid state on trial.

6.   The accused used the courtroom to put the apartheid state on trial and received life or other lengthy prison sentences.

7.   The accused in the so-called Rivonia Trial used the courtroom to put the apartheid state on trial.

8.   Back then, the Rivonia trialists had anticipated death sentences and Mandela had used the courtroom to put the apartheid state on trial.