Jury Experts: Enron Gooses Cooked

The jury consultants who worked on the criminal trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling say the two former Enron executives never stood a chance. Here’s the story from the American Lawyer.

Three of the four mock juries hired to listen to the defense’s case concluded that the pair was guilty, while seven of the eight juries who looked at Lay’s case alone voted to convict him. And while the prosecution had the odds stacked in its favor, its challenge was to put a complex business fraud case in language that a jury could understand.

Read the rest of The Wall Street Journal Law Blog post here.