Jacob Frenkel Jury Quotations

We have the government being very aggressive on the concept of criminal intent in jury charges. And now we have the number two example of it being overturned.

It's rather unlikely that potential jurors either didn't have family members or didn't know people that were directly affected by Enron. My greatest concern isn't the jurors who are speaking to the court honestly but those that want to get on the jury either to make a point to right the wrong of Enron...or to make sure that they can make the round of talk shows.

This is not somebody who made some inadvertent false statement, ... This is a case where a jury convicted a CEO for lying to two different government agencies. That's a big deal.

It's more likely that you can lose a case in jury selection than win the case.