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...Dejan Anastasijevic testified before the ICTY in the Hague in October 2002 and was cross-examined by Milosevic, who was acting as his own defense counsel. He has been TIME's correspondent in Belgrade since...
...Fastow?s cross-examination was also like watching courtroom drama on television. In real-life courtrooms, defense attorneys rarely get to say nasty personal things to the witness without objections from opposing counsel. But the government, reluctant to appear to be defending Fastow, sat back and mostly let Jeffrey Skilling's defense attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, have his way. "It?s like fighting a guy with his hands tied behind his back - it?s a lawyer?s dream," said one courtroom observer, former Federal prosecutor Michael Wynne...
...During his two-day cross-examination, Petrocelli pummeled Fastow with demands for yes or no answers to stark did-you-or-didn?t-you questions, such as "Isn?t it true you want to make sure Jeff Skilling is found guilty?" and "Isn?t it true that you don?t want to be blamed for what went wrong at Enron...
...cheeks with air and blew them out. He mashed his lips together between questions. His face often fell into a smirk. If there was a question he didn?t want to answer, he poured himself a glass of water first. But by the end of the second day of cross-examination, he looked worn out. The more tired he got, the more polite he became. His brow was furrowed and he said that he was a little confused. His answers were shorter, and he said "sir" without the edge. For most of his testimony, he meticiously read every document that...
...Petrocelli is finished with Fastow, but the defense isn't. His cross-examination will continue Monday morning, when Ken Lay?s defense attorney, Michael Ramsey, picks up where Petrocelli left off. Courtroom observers are impressed with the case the prosecution is building up and warn that keeping Fastow on the stand risks taking the focus away from the defendants. "Fastow?s testimony was dangerous for both sides,? said Houston attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win. "If the government is smart, it will close down its case as soon...