Lawyers are negotiating, but if found guilty in a trial, the health club could pay fines and damages up to $100,000.

Pettibone was found not guilty in a separate trial, after the defense declined to argue the case.

All three were found not guilty in a trial which one historian has described as "largely a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda".

If found guilty in a trial, the bishop could be censured or even deposed.

He was found not liable in a sordid trial, and two weeks afterward, the woman's husband committed suicide.

On 28 December, he was found guilty in a secret trial and sentenced to a 12-year jail term.

Dr. Sheppard was found not guilty in a second trial but died four years later.

Czolgosz was found guilty of murder in a very fast trial.

Robert Chaulk was subsequently found not guilty by reason of insanity in a new trial.

On September 5, 2001, he was found guilty in a secret trial, and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment.