In 1993, members of the American Bar Association re-enacted the 1953 trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a moot trial conducted with expertise and meticulous concern for accuracy The unanimous verdict of twelve jurors was "Not Guilty." This "trial" and its dramatic outcome was widely reported by the media - for one day only.

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Mock trial rewrites history
David Greenglass sat in the witness chair, describing how his brother-in-law Julius Rosenberg had enlisted him to steal atomic secrets for the Russians.
      Greenglass--actually, an actor playing him--was on hand for "The Trial of the Century," presented Monday by the ABA Section of Litigation at the Waldorf Astoria. Crack  teams of litigators reargued the case, equipped with facts and technological wizardry that were not available when the case was tried in the '50s, during the high water mark of anti-Communist hysteria,
      The biggest boon to the defense is the availability of FBI documents from the '50s  that have come to light through freedom of information  requests, said Harry M. Reasoner, the Houston lawyer who acted as counsel for Julius Rosenberg in the program.
     "We have the FBI transcripts that show the FBI continually recorded and rehearsed [Greenglass'] statements and finally put him together with [another government witness], Harry Gold, so
Trial: New documents support defense
that they would have the same story," said Reasoner, whose co-counsel is New York lawyer Gary Neftalis. "The documents show that in key aspects the government's story was fabricated," he said.
       While the passage of time has not improved the prosecution's case, it has not substantially weakened it either, said Andrea Zapp, of the Cook County State's Attorney's office. She represented the government with Thomas P. Sullivan, the former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
      The trial obviously benefited from cutting-edge technology. A series of video monitors showed the instantaneous reactions of jurors and a separate panel of lawyers. When there was something they disliked, they indicated their disapproval with hand-held controls.
      Tovah Feldshuh, the actress who starred as Yentil on Broadway, sat demurely at the defense table as Ethel Rosenberg. However, she has no lines in this production, since the real Ethel Rosenberg never testified [NCRRC note: not true, the real Ethel, and Ms. Feldshuh certainly did testify. Co-defendant  Morton Sobell did not testify at the original trial.] because she did not want to admit to being a Communist.
      The presence of spectator Michael Meeropol, the Rosenberg's eldest son who was 10 when his parents were electrocuted, lent a poignant touch to the proceedings. Meeropol, who is now an economics professor at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass., will be speaking today, following the morning's closing arguments.