 The employment of professional judges, officers, interpreters and defence lawyers allows the conclusion to be drawn that, at least in rudimentary terms, there was a safeguarding of the rule of law and the public in today's sense.Between 1803 and 1811, Georg Friedrich von Rebmann was the presiding judge at the Mainz Special Court.After the conclusion of the proceedings there were 20 acquittals, 18 were given prison sentences in chains or were exiled, and 20 were sentenced to death.