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...ruling has put more attention on the instructions that Judge Simeon T. Lake ultimately will give to the jury in the Enron trial. "In the Enron trial there's going to be a battle royal over a jury instruction known as deliberate ignorance," says Houston attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win. " In Lay and Skilling's case it's, 'I didn't know what was going on in the company.' Deliberate-ignorance jury instructions have held a person criminally liable when their denial of knowledge doesn't make sense. But now the judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Quattrone Means for Enron | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...event, all eyes will be on the jury instructions in the Houston courtroom. "These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars," says Enron trial analyst and Houston attorney Brian Wice. "The only law they take into the jury room is the law Judge Lake gives them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Quattrone Means for Enron | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...recently as January, there were no reported shootings at all in New Orleans. At that time, it appeared the city's murderers had regrouped in Houston, as that city's murder rate shot up 50% in January, compared with the same month the year before. Of 23 Katrina-related homicides in Houston, police linked at least nine to two gangs from New Orleans. Then, as federal subsidies ran out, more housing became available again in New Orleans and the Houston police arrested scores of Katrina evacuees in relentless sweeps, the balance shifted again.This month, Houston police reported with relief that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Returns to the Big Easy | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...story was how reporters went completely berserk, looking under every rock to find dirt. All the facts were in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on Monday and the sheriff's statement released on Thursday. What fools you make of yourselves?although it was hilarious watching the circus. Marvin Volz Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

Earned Ph.D. in criminal justice from Texas' Sam Houston State University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brother, Where Art Thou? | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

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