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To: SiouxPal who wrote (68902)	5/25/2006 9:44:22 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 361250

"If the experts’ commentary is to be believed, Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling shouldn’t pin their hopes on an appellate reversal. “I just don’t see any obvious issues [for appeal],” says Andrew Hruska, a white-collar defense lawyer at King & Spalding in New York and former federal prosecutor, adding that defense lawyers typically look to the jury instructions and the jury-selection process for its grounds “Good luck,” adds Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Randy Mastro, also a former federal prosecutor. “The jury made its finding, and it’s going to be very hard to overturn it.”" "The sentence that each has to serve could well be 20 years or more, ratcheting up the probability that Lay, 64, and Skilling, 52, could spend the rest of their lives behind bars. And that, says Samuel Buell, a visiting professor of law at University of Texas and former Enron Task Force member, makes it all the more vital to both men that they’re able to delay the end of this thing for as long as possible. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 11. “Each day that their lawyers can keep them out of prison is a victory; it’s one more day off their sentences.”" blogs.wsj.com