back into the blue. |
Certainly the government has a good team of prosecutors and (federal) agents working on this around the clock. |
For days he's been arguing two-plus-two is not really four, that everything was not as it appeared on its face and that only a very few smart people could understand. |
For him to be acquitted, the jury's got to buy his story and discount everybody else's. |
He seemed to have an answer for just about everything, as he should if he'd been working on this case for the last four-plus years. |
I think Berkowitz did an excellent job of keeping control of a very difficult defendant to cross-examine. |
I think the key for this jury is going to be . . . the self-dealing and other things where he was just looking out for himself and his family. |
If they testify, and we've been promised that, it is going to be one for the ages. |
If you're already ahead in the grand scheme of things, you're taking a chance of creating an appellate issue. |
It was nerves. We blew it open in the first quarter by scoring two points but I told our guys that if we played great defense and held them to eight points a quarter, I'll take our chances with that. We settled down and started playing basketball. |
Just losing a case hits hard. Merck is like our big brother. I can call him a jerk, but you can't. This is binding people together, not pulling them apart. |
Lay had some excellent attorneys working with him. It is apparent to me that Lay wanted to say what he wanted to say, regardless of who was doing the direct examination. I don't think that, ultimately, it would have made that much of a difference. |
Lay was arrogant and defiant. If the defendant is going to take the stand, that's the best you could hope for as a prosecutor. He just appeared to be defiant. |
not only make economic sense but also, and primarily, military and operational sense. |
Overall, he held up very well and helped the prosecution. He came with a lot of baggage. But he did so much damage to the defense case. And most of the points the defense attorneys made on cross-examination didn't go to the crux of the government's case. |