It changes the face of the trial for the prosecutors and the defense. They had to have some contingency plan for trial preparations for a case without Causey. Now they just put that plan in place.

While it's hard to compare-and-contrast (the two trials), there's no question that prosecutors tried a more streamlined case this time.

I've always felt that he had a very strong case on appeal, ... if there's any case that's likely to be reversed, this is it.

This is not somebody who made some inadvertent false statement, ... This is a case where a jury convicted a CEO for lying to two different government agencies. That's a big deal.

This case is a non-starter that has political appeal,

They had to have some contingency plan for trial preparations for a case without Causey. Now they just put that plan in place.

It's more likely that you can lose a case in jury selection than win the case.