Imprisonment caused problems for Mandela and his co-defendants in the Treason Trial; their lawyers could not reach them, and so it was decided that the lawyers would withdraw in protest until the accused were freed from prison when the state of emergency was lifted in late August 1960.
Este encarceramento foi un problema para Mandela e os que estaban acusados canda el no Xuízo por Traizón, xa que os seus avogados non podían comunicarse con eles, polo que decidiron que estes se retirarían do caso a modo de protesta ata que os acusados fosen liberados trala fin do estado de emerxencia a finais de agosto de 1960.