“To the most excellent Mr. Jaime Milans del Bosch y Ussía, lieutenant general of the army, for a completed crime of military rebellion, included in article 287 of the Code of Military Justice, he is sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment”. With enormous expectation, on June 3, 1982, the sentence against those responsible for the attempted coup of February 23 was read. Milans del Bosch and the lieutenant colonel of the Civil Guard Antonio Tejero were considered the leaders of the rebellion and the court-martial applied maximum penalties to them, unlike the mastermind of the coup whom both pointed to: General Alfonso Armada was only considered a conspirator and sentenced to six years in prison. The disputes between Armada and the other two main coup plotters were constant during the trial, which lasted three months (from February 19) at the Army Geographic Service in Madrid.