The defense did not object.

I think everybody in the room was slightly surprised, including me.

He testified.

His attorneys did not want him to and he did it anyway, and I was allowed to be in the gallery for it because I had already given evidence.

He was on the stand for most of a day and he was, for about five hours, extremely convincing.

I want to say that plainly, because there is an assumption that men like this fall apart under cross-examination, and he did not.