Solenia Brandenburg was the least tenured judge on the ICC. It was, then, with some trepidation that she viewed her chance to join the handful of other judges presiding over the case of former AU President Erika Gonzalez. Fortunately, much of the stress had been taken out of the situation when the president had entered her guilty plea. All that remained to be done before the judges deliberated over the sentence was to allow the accused to make her final statement.