You won't see them blow up on the stand, nor will the government bait them. It's going to be much more deliberate and meticulous.
Certainly the government has a good team of prosecutors and (federal) agents working on this around the clock.
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.
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.
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.
We took a national perspective, not a regional perspective, ... We proposed what was best for the national defense.
I think Berkowitz did an excellent job of keeping control of a very difficult defendant to cross-examine.
We had to keep our composure enough and play this game like any other game, as a coach and as a team. These guys are unselfish, they don't care who scores as long as someone scores enough to have a chance to win.
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.
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.
If you're already ahead in the grand scheme of things, you're taking a chance of creating an appellate issue.
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