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Bitcoin Core Developers Sitting Up on the Stand
The case is going to go to trial and the trial will involve people taking the stand and testifying as to the facts. A defendant is not obligated to take the stand in their own defense, that's really the same thing here in the US as it is in the UK. I don't think there's any information that wholly lives within the knowledge base of the devs that would require them to sit up there and be subject to cross-examination. The legal system and the lawyers in the UK are much more polite and decorous than they are here. So what we're used to, these hard-hitting aggressive lawyers make people cry on the stand. That's just not how it's done there