He is likable. He is grandfatherly. He's everybody's papa and he has the ability to show outrage without showing outrage.
Brian Wice
The Court of Criminal Appeals is widely considered to be one of the most conservative appellate courts in the world. Not one judge on that court decided that the state's appeal was worth considering. Obviously believing as the First Court of Appeals did, that when you pay thousands of dollars to a hired gun, that the least they can do is come in and tell the truth.
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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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I believe the judge, as an umpire, at some level has to be concerned with the integrity of the process.
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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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This is a case that turns on credibility.
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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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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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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