 Following more than two weeks of highly technical debate with much focus on Jérôme Kerviel's character, the State Prosecutor called for the former trader to be given a five-year prison sentence, two of them suspended, whilst Kerviel's lawyer called for his client to be acquitted.The ruling was announced on October 5, 2010, at 11 am.Jérôme Kerviel was found guilty of the three charges filed against him