Various explanations for this decision include waiting to give the verdict in August, as this is when foreign governments and legislatures slow down for the summer, and superstition on the part of Burma's ruling generals. 

Following weeks of lobbying and condemnation from abroad, it may also indicate hesitation on the military dictatorship's part of imprisonment.

The court, based in Rangoon, had been expected to deliver a guilty verdict for  Aung Sang Suu Kyi, after she received an American well-wisher (who had been uninvited) into her home where she was under house arrest. 

The judge, however, announced that more time was needed to consider the verdict, and that it would be given on the 11th of August. 

Foreign diplomats that were following the trial in the normally closed court, are using the expression "TIB" (This is Burma), expressing the well known fact that anything is to be expected in Burma. 

Burma currently has more than 2000 political prisoners, who were given no special consideration from the courts, who yield too easily to the whim of the military dictatorship.