KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 -- Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has officially exhausted all available legal avenues to press the "reset" button on her high-stakes solar bribery trial, having failed in her final bid to recuse the judge who ultimately convicted her.

To understand why the wife of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak faced repeated rejections across all three tiers of the judiciary, Malay Mail has compiled a comprehensive breakdown of her legal manoeuvrers and the judicial reasoning behind her defeats.

What is this solar bribery case about?

At the heart of the controversy is a high-profile corruption trial where Rosmah faced three charges.

She was accused of soliciting RM187.5 million and receiving RM6.5 million in bribes in e...