Nicht aus Faulheit oder Hinterlist, die den Advokaten allein an der Fertigstellung hindern konnten, sondern weil in Unkenntnis der vorhandenen Anklage und gar ihrer möglichen Erweiterungen das ganze Leben in den kleinsten Handlungen und Ereignissen in die Erinnerung zurückgebracht, dargestellt und von allen Seiten überprüft werden mußte.
This was not because of laziness or deceit, which were the only things that might have hindered the lawyer in preparing it, but because he did not know what the charge was or even what consequences it might bring, so that he had to remember every tiny action and event from the whole of his life, looking at them from all sides and checking and reconsidering them.