The appeal took place before Saint-Omer's Cour d'assises, composed of three professional judges and nine jurors.
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Yves Bot, general prosecutor of Paris, came to the trial on its last day, without previously notifying the president of the Cour d'assises, Mrs. Mondineu-Hederer; while there, Bot presented his apologies to the defendants on behalf of the legal system—he did this before the verdict was delivered, taking for granted a "not guilty" ruling, for which some magistrates reproached him afterwards.
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McMartin preschool trial, a Californian case where several adults accused of sexual abuse remained on remand for years before charges were dropped.
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After the second trial, the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, the minister of justice Pascal Clément and President Chirac himself officially apologised to the victims in the name of the government and of the judicial institutions.
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