23 Quotes by Michael Wynne

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.