The antitrust trial, which began on Monday and is expected to last another month, has been configured as a bench trial. There’s no jury. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, is deciding the facts and the law of the case from a Virginia courthouse. While criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a jury trial, the rules for civil cases are more nuanced.The Justice Department accuses Google of running a monopoly in the digital advertising market, illegally crushing rivals and trapping clients in its ecosystem to drive up prices for everyone. How had is it to control unfair competition ?

