After the defence and prosecution have made their summing up on Saturday morning, the three judges will retire to consider their verdict and passsentence.
But the defence team said the case was so complex the only person able to pass a realistic sentence was the judge who had listened to all three months of the trial.
Joe was in good spirits, considering his fate, though I could still tell there was a hope that his pending sentence would somehow not come to pass through either divine or human intervention.