"This trial is a media storm, a judicial whirlwind, a dizzying experience, and a great deal of solitude in the defense I have provided for Dominique Pelicot," says Béatrice Zavarro, the lawyer for the main defendant Dominique Pelicot on the eve of the verdict in the Mazan rape trial that shook the world. "I felt he was certainly very anxious because he doesn’t know what the court will decide... He even told the court, 'The rest of my life is in your hands.' So, here we wait," she says of her client while awaiting the verdict after a three month trial. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES