“The Court of Criminal Appeals is widely considered to be one of the most conservative appellate courts in the world. Not one judge on that court decided that the state's appeal was worth considering. Obviously believing as the First Court of Appeals did, that when you pay thousands of dollars to a hired gun, that the least they can do is come in and tell the truth.”
“In a situation like this, the prosecution is now going to have to get its checkbook out and pay some other hired gun to come in and say that Andrea Yates was not insane at the time she committed these events.”
“These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars. The only law they take into the jury room is the law Judge Lake gives them.”
“This is the performance of his life. If he does not hit his mark on the first take and get the jury to look past what they saw in the first half of the trial, he is going to spend the rest of his life as a ward of the federal government.”
