Joel Androphy Quotations

He could have addressed all the negatives on direct. At the end of the day, we could have heard the exact same words, and it could have come out much differently.

Some jurors may feel that (the reason) he can't remember or recall is just that he's honest.

The problem is, people wanted more (on direct), and he set himself up to allow the jury to want more.

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.

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.

You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.

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.

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.

It's going to get boring before it gets exciting.

It looked like he was hiding a bunch of things.

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

He only has to convince one person that the government is overbearing and has been able to cut deals with people.

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

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

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.

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