If there was bad news coming on the trial, and it leaked out....then I would expect the stock to run higher as short interest spiked to at least 20%....as in 20 million or more short...with manipulative games being played to allow the big boys to dump as high as possible....then when the bad news hit the stock would tank and provide them with MAX profits.....that's what happened with PPHM before their FA came out with a big thumbs down....stock ran from 80 cents to up around $1.10 or $1.20...a stop loss order came out indicating there were no more shares available to borrow...then when the FA bomb hit the PPS tanked to 30ish cents...

The reason the PPS tanked is because over 600K shares were borrowed between May 30th and June 15th and dumped back into the market to drive the price down....with most of that activity taking place AFTER the B&B financing news came out on the 9th of June....all you have to do is look at the daily volumes and its obvious.  

From June 1st to June 8th the highest volume day was about 37K....the lowest was just 8,525....so after the bad news hit that's when short selling punished the PPS.