Due to a vacation that the judge was on, the trial was moved back to the middle of August, a week before school was set to begin in Beaver County. Nigel Ratburn talked to his lawyer and tried to get the trial moved to another county, but the judge denied the motion. With the charges hanging over him, Nigel Ratburn decided to waive his right to a fair and speedy trial. It was a huge gamble, but Ratburn was willing to take the chance.

Meanwhile, Nigel Ratburn's jail life was no better over the course of the next few months. He had to get placed in administrative segregation, due to getting in ANOTHER fight with an inmate. His punishment was complete lock down for 23 hours and he could only shower once a week. He was eventually placed in a special wing of the jail for his own safety, and even the inmates in that unit weren't happy about being housed with him.

Alan Powers' parents were supposed to go on TV and discuss what happened, but balked when NBC News wanted to request an interview because Alan's mom thought that NBC was trying to extort the family.

Meanwhile, in other news, Elwood City had a jury selection, which took place over the course of 90 days. There were over 300 potential jurors and anywhere from 10-14 would be selected. The jurors came from as far north as Erie, as far south as the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border, as far west as Warren, Ohio, and as far east as Scranton Wilkes-Barre.

The jurors were ranging from football coaches to exotic dancers and lawyers to bankers. Over the course of this period, more than half dropped out, and the juror pool was thinned to the final 30 people. Five from Ohio, seven from north of Elwood, four from the city, six from the Pittsburgh area, and the other eight from south of the area.

Meanwhile, some of the students refused to come to grips that their former teacher was a pervert. As were a couple of rogue colleagues. They believed to the death that Nigel Ratburn was somehow being framed.'

"Brain's lying. How do we know that it's not some big money grab to frame Nigel. That's what those stings are anyway." said Francine Frensky.

"Do you really think Brain would lie about something like that?" said Arthur.

"Yes. People lie about their age online all the time." said Francine.

"But they have chat logs and stuff. How do we know there aren't MORE victims out there?" replied Buster.

"Buster, do you believe every crackpot story that's in the news?" Francine shot back. "I won't believe anything until I see it."

"We won't even be allowed in the courtroom, Francine. Unless he calls us to testify." said Arthur.

Meanwhile, in the jail, Nigel Ratburn, the teacher that fell from grace, continued to deteriorate mentally. The three meals a day he was served were NOTHING like he was used to in the outside world, if he would ever get to see the outside world again once things were all said and done. Breakfast was runny eggs and oatmeal with hair in it, lunch was nutriloaf, and dinner was a cold, small burger patty on hard bread. The man barely ate the stuff that he was given in the jail, and did not really have a lot of money for commissary, as it went to his lawyer, who basically had to go incognito because it was such a high-profile case.

Ratburn did not have any friends at all, and his family, once they heard about the teacher's transgressions, completely disowned him. The juror pool whittled down from 30 potential to 20 potential. The judge that refused to grant Nigel Ratburn bail made a decision that the juror pool would consist of 12 total people and four alternates. Of the 20, three were from eastern Ohio, five were from north of Elwood City (three of THREE from around the Erie area), four were from in/around the Pittsburgh area, four from Beaver County, and four from south of Beaver County.

Ratburn's lawyer was moving to delay the trial in a last-ditch attempt to try to get the teacher some form of bail, or at least put him on release so he could work on his case with his lawyer. But due to the severity of the charges against him, the judge denied the motion, as well as bail for Ratburn. But the trial date was moved back to the middle of September, and was moved back again as the judge eventually fell ill, but a replacement was found just days later, which was a federal judge from the 3rd district court of appeals.

As for the jury trial, the field of 12 was finally selected. Two each from eastern Ohio, the Erie area, north of Elwood City, within Beaver County, the Pittsburgh area, and south of the county.

The trial was then moved back in order for a doctor to test Ratburn and see if he was deemed mentally competent to stand trial. It hadn't even begun, and local news stations (Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Erie) were hounding the young children, administrators, and the teachers. It got so crazy that the Sheriff's Department AND the Pennsylvania National Guard had to be called in to restore order.

The trial was eventually pushed back once again, this time to October 2.

Proceedings were delayed once more, as the 3rd district court's son was battling leukemia, pushing the trial back another month. Meanwhile, two of the jurors dropped out and were replaced by one alternate from Ohio, and another from the Pittsburgh area.

The trial finally began on the cool fall day of November 3, the day before the election, and was expected to last anywhere from a month to two years, depending on how things shook out with evidence and testimonies.