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...entire tragedy almost takes on Shakespearean dimensions," says David Berg, a Houston attorney who authored The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win. "His fall from power was so great that it just destroyed him. In some ways, you would think that Ken Lay would rather have died than spent a moment in prison." Lay, who was awaiting sentencing in the fall, faced imprisonment for possibly the rest of his life. "On some subconscious level, it's a polite form of suicide. He was not going to let himself be imprisoned...
...Zawahiri issued impotent threats from their hideouts, al-Zarqawi got his hands bloody in Iraq, turning it into the holy war's primary battlefield. He became the jihad's eminent fighter-superstar, embracing and embellishing his infamy with brazen declarations and brutal atrocities--he personally decapitated American Nicholas Berg on videotape, sent scores of suicide bombers to their doom, killed fellow Muslims and attacked their houses of worship. He extended his reach beyond Iraq, dispatching suicide bombers to attack hotels in his native Jordan last November, killing...
...Zarqawi beheads U.S. contractor Nicholas Berg (who was abducted in April) on videotape...
...think the jury necessarily identified any financial issues, accounting issues,? he said. ?There's no way in just a couple days they could fully comprehend the law and at the end of day apply the law to the facts and come up with an intelligent verdict." Indeed, David Berg, a Houston attorney and author of The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win, contends that Lay ?was convicted on all counts because he was so obnoxious on the stand...
...over. ?Right up to the end, people were concerned they might get away with it,? said Robin Harrison, a Houston attorney representing the pensioners in their benefits case. ?It seems the jury was pretty cohesive. They just flat didn?t believe the testimony of the two men.? As Berg puts it, "The defense - that there was nothing wrong at Enron - was a demonstration of the kind of arrogance that brought them down...