Michael Wynne Quotations

Lay was arrogant and defiant. If the defendant is going to take the stand, that's the best you could hope for as a prosecutor. He just appeared to be defiant.

Lay had some excellent attorneys working with him. It is apparent to me that Lay wanted to say what he wanted to say, regardless of who was doing the direct examination. I don't think that, ultimately, it would have made that much of a difference.

If they testify, and we've been promised that, it is going to be one for the ages.

We took a national perspective, not a regional perspective, ... We proposed what was best for the national defense.

He seemed to have an answer for just about everything, as he should if he'd been working on this case for the last four-plus years.

Just losing a case hits hard. Merck is like our big brother. I can call him a jerk, but you can't. This is binding people together, not pulling them apart.

I think the key for this jury is going to be . . . the self-dealing and other things where he was just looking out for himself and his family.

I think Berkowitz did an excellent job of keeping control of a very difficult defendant to cross-examine.

Overall, he held up very well and helped the prosecution. He came with a lot of baggage. But he did so much damage to the defense case. And most of the points the defense attorneys made on cross-examination didn't go to the crux of the government's case.

We can provide, and believe we are providing, adequately for the area of New England as far as coverage is concerned,

Those confessions of moral lapses, in public like this, might allow jurors to conclude that he is resigned, resolved and finally telling his part.

We had to keep our composure enough and play this game like any other game, as a coach and as a team. These guys are unselfish, they don't care who scores as long as someone scores enough to have a chance to win.

This was a capability review aimed at jointness, ... We think all of the services are in fact going to gain from this event.

The Sept. 6 call, his failure to remember that, really damaged his credibility. That sequence is going to affect the jury's consideration of whether or not he had the intent to commit the other offenses he's charged with.

That, perhaps, is an explanation, but it's not an excuse?and it's not a license to lie.

For him to be acquitted, the jury's got to buy his story and discount everybody else's.

For days he's been arguing two-plus-two is not really four, that everything was not as it appeared on its face and that only a very few smart people could understand.

It was nerves. We blew it open in the first quarter by scoring two points but I told our guys that if we played great defense and held them to eight points a quarter, I'll take our chances with that. We settled down and started playing basketball.

not only make economic sense but also, and primarily, military and operational sense.

If you're already ahead in the grand scheme of things, you're taking a chance of creating an appellate issue.

Certainly the government has a good team of prosecutors and (federal) agents working on this around the clock.

This is a great rejoinder, ... I'm a member of the Air Force family.

You won't see them blow up on the stand, nor will the government bait them. It's going to be much more deliberate and meticulous.