"[This book] covers all aspects of the trial process and provides...examples illustrating strategies for opening statements, jury selection, direct- and cross-examination, exhibits, objections, and more.
For the first time, the prosecutors explained how the mistake had occurred, saying they were too bogged down with opening statements, jury selection and jury instructions to realize that they had not conformed some of their exhibits to the judge's latest rulings.
More than two years after Harwood wrote that statement, a jury of seven men and four women have come to a different conclusion.
It said in a statement: "The jury's decision concerned a single Countrywide program that lasted several months and ended before Bank of America's acquisition of the company.
In an official statement, the jury said the process left "important questions unanswered" and that "significant question marks" had been raised over various factors, including the project's proposed scale.
Soon after Mr. Lynch's statement, the jury of six men and six women began deliberations; it was late in the afternoon, on the seventh anniversary of the slaying of Ms. Neulander, who was 52.
The bank said in a statement, "The jury's decision concerned a single Countrywide program that lasted several months and ended before Bank of America's acquisition of the company.
Prosecutors have charged him with false statements, per- jury and obstruction of Congress.
He even went on to say, 'I never gave Jack Abramoff favorable treatment,' " statements the jury rejected in its verdict.
He also said that even if Mr. Allo had made false statements during jury selection, it might not warrant overturning a conviction.
