They had to have some contingency plan for trial preparations for a case without Causey. Now they just put that plan in place.

I've always felt that he had a very strong case on appeal, ... if there's any case that's likely to be reversed, this is it.

It's more likely that you can lose a case in jury selection than win the case.

This is not somebody who made some inadvertent false statement, ... This is a case where a jury convicted a CEO for lying to two different government agencies. That's a big deal.

While it's hard to compare-and-contrast (the two trials), there's no question that prosecutors tried a more streamlined case this time.

In the last two years, the government has painstakingly climbed ladders, gotten different people along the way to plead guilty in order to go after someone at the higher rung. We're now at the top of the ladder.