The trial in Manhattan is seeking to reform the practice of stop, question and frisk, a contentious law enforcement tactic, and lawyers for the plaintiffs are seeking a court-appointment monitor to oversee the changes.
The third, which challenges the practice in general, goes to trial this month.
But the trial has exposed how in practice, the tactic creates often messy and difficult encounters between police and the public.
Part of that implementation is the process to ensure that in practice it is at least as good as it was in the trial.
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And while Mr Lagos insists that the Pinochet affair is a matter for the courts, in practice his centre-left government wants to avoid the political stresses a trial would involve.
Gerasimov and Goncharov told reporters at preliminary hearings earlier this month that as members of the Moscow Bar Association they had no choice but to take part in the trial once they were appointed to represent the dead lawyer, otherwise they would lose their licenses to practice.
From 1979 to 1993, Judge Droney was engaged in the private practice of law in Hartford, Connecticut, specializing in trial work.
Ratner, who was convicted of insurance fraud and stripped of his license to practice medicine for three years in 2002, is on the witness list for the trial and has been questioned in a deposition by each side.
The two other stop-and-frisk-related cases in front of Judge Scheindlin are a lawsuit over trespassing in public housing projects and a class-action suit challenging the constitutionality of the broader stop-and-frisk practice, which is slated to go to trial in March.
The alleged change was detailed Wednesday in a memo city lawyers sought to use as evidence during a trial stemming from a civil-rights lawsuit challenging the practice.
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