Still, she granted almost none of the core proposals the states raised during an eight-week trial last spring.
Defense lawyers said they had information of tampering with the 14-member jury during the eight-week trial.
The jury deliberated eight days after the eight-week trial.
Scheduled for an eight-week trial, that issue sold out in eight days.
In their eight-week trial they represented themselves because they said they could not afford lawyers.
The jury, after an eight-week trial and 13 hours of deliberation, found the two companies not guilty of the charges.
An eight-week double blind trial involved 20 obese patients.
In interviews yesterday dissecting the eight-week trial, lawyers and jurors pointed to several factors that led to his conviction.
After an eight-week trial in 1986, he won a $19.3 million jury award, which the trial judge later reduced to $5.2 million.
Jurors deliberated for 13 hours after an eight-week trial and acquitted the defendants of all charges on April 26.