Trial for Saddam Hussein and his associates may begin this spring. This is a really interesting article on how it will unfold. Some of the trials will be televised.

One curious note:

But the Western legal expert said Iraqi court procedures, based on civil law, should prevent attempts to turn the proceedings into political theater. First, he said, the defense will be handled by lawyers, and not, as in Mr. Milosevic's case, by the defendant. Beyond that, the wide powers granted to the judges to select witnesses and direct prosecution and defense lawyers, as well as the absence of the adversary system used in American trials, would make the tribunal's hearings "more expeditious" than the tribunal in The Hague.

"You're not going to see a Johnnie Cochrane cross-examining somebody in the manner of the O. J. case," he said.