 Weeks after Stalin's death, on 5 March 1953, the new Soviet leadership renounced the Doctors' plot, which led to questions about the similar situation with the JAC defendants.Upon the discovery that much of the testimony from the trial was the result of torture and coercion, the proceedings were reexamined.On 22 November 1955, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR determined that there was "no substance to the charges" against the defendants and closed the case.