rationalskepticism.org

The story has Jesus suffer just as the Jews suffered under Roman occupation. Except for the know-it-alls, we don't know that the story is anything other than allegorical fiction. There are so many things wrong with the trial and execution storyline that it is just not reasonable to believe a real trial and execution could have actually happened the way that one was written to have happened.

Here is some info:http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/jesus/sanhedrin.html