SARANAC LAKE – No testimony, legal or religious, came Monday morning from two men on trial for disruptive preaching.

That surprised Assistant District Attorney David Hayes, who said he had expected Richard Trudeau and Mark De Rouville of the Texas-based Church of Wells to use the courtroom as a platform to defend their right to preach their strict variety of Christianity.

“There wasn’t any theater,” Hayes said Tuesday. “It went fairly smoothly.”

Town Justice Michael “Beef” Bevilacqua found each man guilty of two counts of disorderly conduct, a violation.

Trudeau, 33, who was born and raised in Saranac Lake, and De Rouville had been arrested twice in three days in March: first for interrupting a service at Saranac Lake Baptist Church, whose members physically ejected them, and then for loud preaching at the central downtown intersection of Main Street and Broadway.

They represented themselves without lawyers Monday in Harrietstown town court, but they did not testify or call any witnesses, Hayes said. The prosecution called three witnesses.

“We made sure to advise them that they had every right to testify,” Hayes said. “I thought they were going to testify that they had a legitimate purpose to engage in disruptive behavior, and that that legitimate purpose would be spreading the word of God.”

Before the trial, prosecutors had dropped misdemeanor charges of disrupting a religious service, as well as a resisting arrest misdemeanor against De Rouville. With only violations at stake, it was a bench trial with no jury needed.

Sentencing was set for 9 a.m. Thursday. The maximum penalty for each man would be 30 days in Franklin County jail, 15 days for each count.

“I don’t anticipate Judge Bevilacqua putting them in jail, though,” Hayes said. “I think that has a lot to do with the way the trial went. It was pretty calm.”