In the court of law, when judges arrived at such conclusion; they already know that the trial is not worthy, that the prosecution has failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt, and the case needs to be kicked out. Heartbreakingly; in this situation, they appear not to have the stomach to attempt that; thus, the docket of the trial has now evolved into “Justices of SCSL VS the People who wanted to see CT falls from grace”. Instead of kicking the trial out, they (judges) appear to be troubled about how the framers and financial supporters of the trial will think if they ever do that.

Long before Taylor ever became president of Liberia it was concluded that by the CIA in its classified report that:

“In terms of the May 30, 1997 elections, all transmissions from Capitol Hill and 1600 Penn seem to not favor any of the current candidates in Monrovia. Mr. Taylor is out of the question due to his double dealings with international shady figures, including his ties to Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Mr. Matthews on the other hand is very inconsistent and unreliable. He is too close to many of the problems in the country. Mr. Tipoteh is a card-carrying Socialist. He is the type who will turn away from the U.S. and align with Socialist nations. Mr. Fahnbulleh is a very divisive figure with a narrow support base. He tends to be a sectionalist. He has close ties to China, Cuba, and other Socialist nations. According to classified reports, the U.S. opposes almost all of the standing politicians in the country. They are generally corruptible and short on vision. Should any one of them become elected, immediate action will be taken, including threats of a war crimes tribunal, to bring down the government”.

With all these known and on minds, couple with the inexistence of credible evident to convict CT, I believe the judges would soon be entering into a three way unorthodox plea bargain with the Defense and the people who wanted to see CT ousted in order to get Taylor to accept an asylum in another country, as mean of getting him off the hook.

He is seen as a threat to western inference, and they are determined not to see him go back to the shore of the land of his nativity. By him accepting an asylum – probably to go to Libya with certain conditions that he will not be involved in Liberia’s politics for as long as he lives; that will be his only way of getting out of jail.

This trial should have been a “Guilty – Guilty” occurrence as was in the case of “WMD – WMD” that took Sadam down, but the prosecution didn’t do her homework well. The “Not-Guilty” phase was not and is still not written any where in the minds of those that framed the indictments. That’s why, since the prosecution has blundered, the “unorthodox plea bargain” would come in to balance the reputation of the SCSL in the eyes of the many observers, because the character of the international court is at stake here.