Most of my editorial letters end with a reference to Jesus. This time I'm starting with one. When Jesus was in front of the Sanhedrin, a worldly way of looking at the situation would be that the people who were the judges of right and wrong were going to judge this single itinerant rabbi. But in order to keep their power and exterminate this fellow who kept healing the commoners, they had to break some of their own rules to do it! Some of the broken rules: Capital punishment trials were not supposed to be held at night or before the sabbath but this one was. Jesus' testimony was not considered...