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[Star Wars] What if Count Dooku had stood trial?

Anakin chops off Dooku's hands. Palpatine tells Anakin to decapitate the old guy. Drawing on his years of Jedi morality training and tutelage under Kenobi, Anakin declines, and says that Dooku will be brought to trial. What happens next? Assume that Palpatine won't be able to assassinate Dooku before the trial takes place.
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Palpatine does everything in his (considerable) power to prevent this from happening. Assuming that through some miracle he fails, Dooku's trial would be... interesting. Dooku is far to smart to try to out Palpatine as a Sith during a public trial, but he would definitely plant the seeds of doubt in the mind of anyone who would visit him in the days leading up to the trial. Yoda, Obi wan, and possibly even Windu would be likely candidates for such subterfuge, and given the suspicion the Jedi Council already has for Palpatine, he'd probably have some success. Not enough to sway the outcome of the trial, but enough to put the Jedi onto Palpatine's trail. 

Of course, the events leading to the rise of the Empire play out pretty much the same, for the same reason that is invariably the answer whenever a "What would have happened had the Jedi discovered Palpatine earlier" question is asked. He's just way too good.