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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

back into the blue.

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.

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...

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

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

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