He is likable. He is grandfatherly. He's everybody's papa and he has the ability to show outrage without showing outrage.

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I believe the judge, as an umpire, at some level has to be concerned with the integrity of the process.

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It looks bad. It's only witness tampering if you attempt to impact their testimony. But he's come within a coat of paint of doing that.

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In a situation like this, the prosecution is now going to have to get its checkbook out and pay some other hired gun to come in and say that Andrea Yates was not insane at the time she committed these events.

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This is the performance of his life. If he does not hit his mark on the first take and get the jury to look past what they saw in the first half of the trial, he is going to spend the rest of his life as a ward of the federal government.

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This is a case that turns on credibility.

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These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars. The only law they take into the jury room is the law Judge Lake gives them.

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He's got to open it himself; the government can't kick it in.

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I would say Ken Lay has been grilled by his own lawyers to avoid opening the door.

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