In summer, 1998, BRANDON took up a residency at Harvard University's Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, Anna Deavere Smith, Artistic Director; to develop the project's finale trial segment. On August 5th, as court proceedings took place in a multi-case courtroom drama at Ames Court, Harvard Law School, we invited netizens of digital nation to join the public forum /civic dialogue on line in a work-in-development, Virtual Court Test Trial for BRANDON second installment in 1999.