All week the two ministers worked with her, and under their supervision she had written out a formal recantation of her unsound opinions that brought objection from all the ministers.
The court described defense efforts to upset the conviction as largely smoke and mirrors and found that several of the proffered affidavits were not recantations at all.
Unhappily for her, he unexpectedly withdrew his recantations at the last minute as he was to be burned at the stake, thus ruining her government's propaganda victory.