The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation.

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And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into a case like this as a defendant six feet under, and you have to continually claw your way out of that hole.

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You can't put a witness on the stand who can't remember. It comes across as a conscious decision to forget.

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You need to get there early...I suggest you wait a week or so, the interest will fade and you should be able to attend. I appreciate your interest in our nation's justice system.

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I do that all the time, and it's not just something I'm making up.

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It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil one. This has become a document trial.

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These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases.

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The government has an arsenal of pressure points. Individually, he might have tried each of these cases, but the culmination of looking at multiple trials is burdensome for any defendant. The government only has to win one.

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