Federal courts have tried hundreds of alleged terrorists since 9/11. Because the government sought to prevent acts of terrorism, it often used informants to elicit inculpatory words and actions, sometimes by providing the very weapons of destruction. As a result, almost every accused was convicted, even though some might never have committed a terrorist act without the informant's intervention. Otherwise, trials did not differ significantly from conventional criminal prosecutions: judges scrupulously insisted on due process, even when dealing with obstreperous defendants; and juries took their duties seriously, sometimes hanging because of one dissenter.