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One glance at Judge Melinda Harmon's bio says it all:
 
'The presiding judge in the Andersen criminal case, U.S. District 
Court Judge Harmon was named to the federal bench by President George 
H.W. Bush in 1989 after spending 12 years as a lawyer for Exxon. 
Through the luck of the judge-selection draw, 55-year-old Judge 
Harmon also happens to be simultaneously overseeing various civil 
cases against Andersen, a class-action lawsuit against Enron and 
Enron's $10 billion lawsuit against Dynegy. She has said the Andersen 
criminal trial must end on May 29 because she is going on vacation 
and has nonrefundable plane tickets'.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1021254095151271880,00.html?
mod=special_page_enron_hs_2

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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1021249254695582240,00.html?
mod=special_page_enron_hs_2 
  
A Recap of Proceedings
In the Andersen Trial

Arthur Andersen's criminal trial on a single felony count of 
obstruction of justice opened in U.S. District Court in Houston on 
May 6. David Duncan, the Andersen auditor fired for the Enron 
document shredding, testified for five days. The case went to the 
jury on June 5.

Latest Developments

Jurors in the Andersen criminal obstruction-of-justice trial retired 
to their hotel rooms once again after a fifth day of deliberations 
without reaching a verdict.

Week 1
Day One (May 6):

Highlights: Andersen's defense lawyers struggled to pick a jury to 
try the document-shredding case that could determine the fate of the 
embattled accounting firm. The government, facing a Texas jury and a 
fiery Texas defense lawyer, Rusty Hardin, made a last-minute change 
in its lineup, giving former Texas federal prosecutor Matt Friedrich 
a more prominent role in the case. ... Several would-be jurors 
admitted they harbored anger about the fall of Enron, and some said 
they couldn't separate the actions of Enron and the actions of 
Andersen, its former auditor. ... A jury of seven women and nine men 
was picked, including one juror who asked Mr. Hardin what the SEC was.

Full Story: U.S. to Say Andersen Officials Knew of Efforts to Cover 
Up Enron Mess

Day Two (May 7):

 
Highlights: Judge Melinda Harmon allowed prosecutors to introduce 
evidence of Andersen's audit failures at Sunbeam Corp. and Waste 
Management Inc. during the 1990s. ... Prosecutors laid the foundation 
of their case for a motive, contending that they can prove Andersen 
feared it would be suspended from auditing publicly owned clients 
were it to be found in violation of a consent decree signed with the 
SEC last year. It was out of that fear, prosecutors argued, that 
Andersen's partners and employees devised a careful plan to destroy 
evidence of Andersen's faulty audit work for Enron, the once-powerful 
energy trader that collapsed last year ... Andersen's lead attorney, 
Mr. Hardin, replied in his opening argument, "The evidence will show 
that there was no organized effort to get rid of any specific 
documents" in advance of the SEC's probe.

Full Story: Andersen Runs Into Major Setback One Day Into Its 
Obstruction Trial

Day 3 (May 8):

Highlights: James A. Hecker, an energy specialist in Andersen's 
Houston office, warned colleagues in August 2001 of " 'smoking guns' 
that you can't extinguish" relating to the accounting firm's 
controversial audits for Enron Corp. ... An SEC attorney testified 
that the abrupt resignation of Enron's chief executive and potential 
conflicts involving its chief financial officer led the SEC to launch 
its investigation into Enron last August. ... Thomas C. Newkirk, who 
led the SEC's investigations into accounting fraud at Waste 
Management and Sunbeam, testified that the Andersen partner who 
signed the firm's SEC consent decree over its Waste Management audits 
implored the SEC not to bring fraud allegations against Andersen 
because the firm already had "learned its lesson" over the Waste 
Management situation. ... Mr. Hardin castigated the SEC as an 
ineffective agency from which Andersen would have had little to fear, 
in an attack on the prosecution's motive theory.

Full Story: Partner Warned Andersen Over Problems With Audits

Day 4 (May 9):

Highlights: Mr. Hardin unequivocally signaled that the Andersen's 
defense strategy will be to convince jurors there was nothing 
improper about destroying Enron-related documents last fall in the 
weeks before the firm received a Nov. 8 subpoena from the Securities 
and Exchange Commission. ... Mr. Hardin held an impromptu news 
conference at day's end at which he accused the Justice Department of 
witness tampering and called for a federal investigation into the 
treatment of witnesses by the government's Enron Task Force. Mr. 
Hardin's statements came after Andersen manager Kate Agnew declined 
to testify, citing her Fifth Amendment right against self-
incrimination.

Full Story: Andersen Now Claims Shredding of Documents Wasn't Improper

Day 5 (May 10):

Highlights: Judge Harmon denied Andersen lawyers' request for notes 
taken by David Duncan's attorneys during government interviews of 
their client. ... Prosecutors disclosed that Andersen attorney Nancy 
Temple had invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-
incrimination and wouldn't testify. ... Amy Ripepi, an Andersen 
partner, confirmed that Andersen Ms. Temple twice told participants 
in an Oct. 20 conference call to "make sure to follow" the firm's 
document-retention policy. Under cross-examination, however, Ms. 
Ripepi testified that no one during those conference calls made any 
mention of the prospect that a SEC inquiry into Enron might extend to 
Andersen.

Full Story: Andersen Is Denied in Bid for Notes but Is Helped by 
Testifying Partners

Week 2
Day 6 (May 13)

Highlights: David Duncan, former Andersen partner and the 
government's star witness in the criminal trial, told jurors Monday 
that he ordered subordinates to follow Andersen's "document-retention 
policy," knowing the instruction would direct them to destroy -- not 
save -- documents related to the firm's audits of Enron. ... Earlier, 
prosecutors attacked the credibility of an Andersen partner, Amy 
Ripepi, whose testimony last week had offered the most favorable 
evidence yet for the firm. ... Judge Harmon allowed prosecutors to 
ask Ms. Ripepi several questions about Andersen in-house lawyer Nancy 
Temple's notes, even though Ms. Temple last week exercised her Fifth 
Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Outside the presence of 
the jury, a furious Mr. Hardin said the line of questioning could 
prove to be "reversible error" in the case.

Full Story: Duncan Testifies That He Knew Enron Papers Would Be Lost

Day 7 (May 14)

Highlights: David Duncan told jurors he launched Andersen's massive 
campaign to destroy documents in October because he feared potential 
lawsuits and regulatory inquiries over the accounting firm's audits 
for Enron. Prosecutors will attempt to use the testimony by Mr. 
Duncan to prove Andersen had a motive for destroying tons of Enron-
related documents. ... If accepted, Mr. Duncan's testimony that he 
and others at Andersen knowingly stood by while Enron executives 
misrepresented the reason for a $1.2 billion shareholder-equity 
misstatement potentially could assist the government in building a 
fraud case against Andersen and other individuals. ... Meanwhile, 
Enron proved to be a cash cow for Andersen even in its darkest hour. 
Mr. Duncan testified that during the one-month period that ended Nov. 
9 -- the day after Andersen received its SEC subpoena -- the firm 
billed Enron $3.2 million.

Full Story: Duncan Says Fear of Lawsuits Drove Shredding of Documents

Day 8 (May 15)

Highlights: David Duncan testified that he knew he could face a stiff 
prison sentence and possible accounting-fraud charges related to 
Enron Corp.'s collapse if he didn't cooperate with the government in 
its prosecution of Arthur Andersen ... Duncan's testimony has been 
notable for the lack of new evidence it has produced to directly 
support the government's case.

Full Story: Ex-Andersen Partner Duncan Says He Knew He Faced Fraud 
Charges

Day 9 (May 16)

Highlights: David Duncan confirmed that he preserved several 
potentially embarrassing records alleging wrongdoing at the Enron. 
Andersen attorney Rusty Hardin used his cross-examination to argue 
that Mr. Duncan would have destroyed these files, too, if he had 
really been trying hide anything from federal investigators. .... 
Tempers exploded in the courtroom between Judge Harmon and Mr. Hardin 
as the judge complained that Andersen attorneys hadn't acted quickly 
enough to share an internal billing-records document with the 
government.

Full Story: Andersen Lead Counsel, Judge Have Heated Exchange in Court

Day 10 (May 17)

Highlights: Andersen lawyers extracted statements from David Duncan 
that he couldn't recall much at all about the Enron-related documents 
he destroyed last fall. Andersen's argument is clear: If Mr. Duncan 
had really intended to hide damaging information from securities 
regulators, as he testified earlier this week, he would have 
remembered what he destroyed. ... Mr. Duncan was dismissed from the 
witness stand late Friday afternoon after five days of testimony. ... 
Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann sought to rehabilitate Mr. Duncan as a 
government witness, using his testimony to remind jurors that he had 
already pleaded guilty to obstruction and could face as many as 10 
years in prison. Mr. Weissmann had Mr. Duncan explain to jurors that 
he could face additional prison time if he is later found to have 
lied during trial proceedings. .... Prosecutor Samuel Buell appeared 
to be playing down the importance of Duncan's during an evidentiary 
hearing, commenting that he believes Nancy Temple is the government's 
central witness in the case.

Full Story: Star Witness in Andersen Trial Loses Shine as Memory 
Falters

Week 3
Day 11 (May 20)

Highlights: Tom Bauer, a top Arthur Andersen LLP auditor who was 
identified by David B. Duncan as one of the people who helped shape 
his instructions to destroy Enron-related documents invoked his Fifth 
Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying in the 
accounting firm's criminal trial here. Word of the decision came 
outside the jury's presence. ... Prosecutors introduced hundreds of 
pages of new exhibits, including a stack of handwritten notes by 
Andersen in-house attorney Nancy Temple. The only witness Monday was 
a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent called by prosecutors to 
authenticate the documents, mostly internal Andersen e-mails, and 
read portions of them aloud. ... Prosecutors also played portions of 
a much-anticipated Oct. 10 videotape showing Andersen partner Michael 
Odom delivering a teleconference lecture on how to comply with the 
firm's document-retention policy. Prosecutors are expected to use the 
video to demonstrate that Andersen crafted its document-retention 
policy specifically to thwart anticipated government inquiries before 
they even began. However, the tape by itself doesn't appear to 
contradict Andersen's rendition of the events that preceded the 
firm's receipt of a Nov. 8 SEC subpoena for Enron-related documents.

Full Story: Andersen's Bauer Avoids Testifying by Invoking Fifth 
Amendment Right

Day 12 (May 21)

Highlights: Patricia Grutzmacher, an Andersen auditor, testified that 
her boss, Tom Bauer, held a private meeting with her last fall to 
discuss "getting rid of documents" and explained that if he ever 
raised the subject with her it would take the form of "being in 
compliance" with the firm's document-retention policy. ... Ms. 
Grutzmacher testified that she later began destroying files, 
including handwritten notes of which there were no other copies. 
Rusty Hardin, Andersen's lead trial lawyer, discounted the 
testimony. ... Ms. Grutzmacher also testified about her experience as 
an auditor assigned to Enron. On one occasion, she said, a senior 
Enron official tried to have her and another midlevel Andersen 
auditor removed from the audits of the company's capital-management 
unit, because she had refused to bless Enron's proposed accounting 
for certain transactions. ... Her testimony was an interlude on a day 
when Andersen lawyers attempted to put a favorable light on a paper 
trail of e-mails, handwritten notes and other documents that the 
government introduced this week.

Full Story: Andersen Auditor Says Her Boss Pressed the Firm's Records 
Policy

Day 13 (May 22)

Highlights: A court filing by the prosecution shed the first light on 
a long-running fight over the instructions that jurors should receive 
before they begin deliberations on whether to find the accounting 
firm guilty of obstructing justice. ... Prosecutors have asked Judge 
Harmon to instruct the jury that acting "corruptly" simply means 
acting "with an improper purpose," and that that it isn't necessary 
for the government to prove that an Andersen agent's sole or even 
primary motive for destroying documents was to benefit the 
partnership. ... So far, just about every major procedural and 
evidentiary ruling by Judge Melinda Harmon has gone the government's 
way and most trial observers expect her pro-government streak will 
extend to her jury instructions. ... A hearing on the two sides' jury-
instruction proposals is scheduled for Thursday morning.

Full Story: Andersen's Fate Could Hinge on Crafting of Jury 
Instructions

Day 14 (May 23)

Highlights: In an unusual move, prosecutors asked Judge Harmon to let 
the jury consider three Andersen employees' refusal to testify as 
evidence that the firm obstructed justice. ... The requested jury 
instruction drew vociferous opposition from Andersen lawyers, and 
raised what legal specialists said were novel questions about the 
scope of the Fifth Amendment. ... The request came as the government 
begins wrapping up its case against Andersen; prosecutors said they 
intend to rest as soon as Friday. ... Separately, Judge Harmon issued 
an unusual apology to the media after holding a bench conference out 
of public earshot after the jury had been dismissed for lunch. At the 
conference, prosecutors had expressed frustrations about Andersen 
attorney Rusty Hardin's courtroom demeanor.

Full Story: Prosecutors Ask Judge to Permit Unusual Evidence

Day 15 (May 24)

Highlights: Prosecutors presented evidence they felt shows an 
Andersen partner on the Enron audit account evaded investigators' 
questions. ... Prosecutors also introduced a blizzard of e-mails 
reconstructed by Andersen after they were deleted last autumn. ... 
Defense attorney Rusty Hardin pointed out to jurors that since last 
autumn Andersen has produced a host of evidence upon being 
subpoenaed. ... Prosecutors had planned to rest their case Friday 
after calling their last witness, but the defense's cross-examination 
wasn't completed in time. Questioning will resume Monday, despite the 
federal Memorial Day holiday.

Full Story: Andersen Prosecutors Aim to Show Partner at Firm Evaded 
Questions

Week 4
Day 16 (May 27)

Highlights: Prosecutors rested their case after 15 days of testimony 
from government witnesses. ... Arthur Andersen began presenting its 
defense by immediately trying to discredit the credibility of 
prosecutors. Richard Corgel, a Los Angeles-based partner responsible 
for supervising the accounting firm's U.S. audits, testified that 
prosecutors' March indictment of Andersen on a single count of 
destroying evidence had inaccurately characterized a statement he 
made about the quality of the Andersen auditors assigned to 
Enron. ... Mr. Corgel also testified that he wasn't aware of any 
discussions among partners aimed at trying to prevent the firm from 
disclosing Enron-related documents to the Securities and Exchange 
Commission. He also testified that he didn't believe Andersen 
attorney Nancy Temple had instructed anyone to impede the SEC's 
inquiries into Enron or Andersen. ... U.S. District Judge Melinda 
Harmon scheduled proceedings on Saturday. Lawyers for the two sides 
conferred with Judge Harmon for about two hours to craft the 
instructions she will read to jurors before they begin deliberations. 
But Andersen did claim at least one significant victory that will 
make it more difficult for prosecutors to win a conviction. Judge 
Harmon ruled that for Andersen to be convicted, jurors must conclude 
that at least one person at the firm committed all the elements of 
the obstruction-of-justice charge under which Andersen was indicted.

Full Story: Andersen Begins Trial Defense, Tries to Discredit 
Prosecutors

Day 17 (May 28)

Highlights: Andersen partner Richard Corgel's long replies to cross-
examination questions by prosecutor Andrew Weissmann offered 
significant support for the government's case that Andersen's 
documentation policy was designed to hide information from potential 
litigants. ... Andersen lead attorney Rusty Hardin appeared to try 
everything he could to stop Mr. Corgel from volunteering answers to 
questions Mr. Weissmann hadn't asked. ... Mr. Weissmann introduced a 
series of e-mails in which Andersen partners referred to the 
term "smoking guns," discussing the importance of not including 
certain items in the firm's permanent work papers. ... Mr. Corgel 
brushed off "smoking guns" as a "a slang term for information that 
can be taken out of context and abused and is extraneous to the files 
to support the" firm's audit conclusions. ... Mr. Hardin tried to 
rehabilitate Mr. Corgel during the afternoon session once Mr. 
Weissmann wrapped up his cross-examination.

Full Story: First Witness for Arthur Andersen Unwittingly Delivers 
for Prosecution

Day 18 (May 29)

Highlights: Andersen used witnesses off the government's own list to 
counter an allegation in the government's March indictment that 
Andersen personnel in the firm's Portland, Ore., office were 
instructed to destroy Enron-related documents. ... Still, prosecutors 
gained at least some ground during their cross-examinations. ... 
Andersen lead lawyer Rusty Hardin called the witnesses to show that 
at least some Andersen personnel actually saved Enron-related 
documents as the energy company's troubles began to surface, in a 
clear bid to undercut part of the government's obstruction-of-justice 
indictment. ... Under Judge Melinda Harmon's jury instructions, if 
jurors conclude any Andersen personnel intended to prevent the SEC 
from obtaining some Enron-related documents that they destroyed, the 
fact that other Enron-related documents were saved doesn't, by 
itself, relieve the firm of criminal liability. ... The morning began 
with testimony from former Andersen manager Jennifer Stevenson, who 
told Mr. Hardin she wasn't trying to impede any SEC investigation 
when she began following through on instructions to comply with the 
firm's "document retention" policy. ... During cross-examination, 
however, prosecutor Matt Friedrich elicited the first testimony to 
date that at least some people at Andersen's Houston office had 
mentioned the prospect that the firm might receive a subpoena at the 
same time that staff members there were beginning to destroy Enron-
related documents.

Full Story: Andersen Counters the Prosecution With Some Government 
Witnesses

Day 19 (May 30)

Highlights: Andersen tried to counter government allegations that a 
coordinated effort to destroy Enron-related documents spread overseas 
last fall. But the attempt partly backfired when a London-based 
partner testified that a call from the firm's Houston office 
triggered widespread shredding in the U.K. ... In contrast with the 
Portland office, Andersen's London staff spun into action after the 
call, London partner Michael D. Jones said, and destroyed stacks of 
documents and wiped clean computer files. ... Prosecutors appear to 
be building a case that Andersen higher-ups only directed personnel 
to follow the firm's document policy when they wanted to get rid of 
damaging information on problem audits. ... Among other witnesses was 
John E. Stewart, a Chicago member of Andersen's Professional 
Standards Group. ... Mr. Stewart said he gave Andersen lawyer Nancy 
Temple a stack of documents chronicling a dispute between the 
standards group and Andersen auditors in Houston over Enron's 
accounting practices. By highlighting how Ms. Temple kept -- and 
didn't destroy -- those documents, Andersen lead lawyer Rusty Hardin 
was trying to show she wasn't the "corrupt persuader" that 
prosecutors allege.

Full Story: Andersen Tries to Fight the Charge That Destruction Was 
Coordinated

Day 20 (May 31)

Highlights: The executive assistant of David Duncan, Andersen's lead 
Enron auditor, sobbed as she testified about learning from a news 
release that her boss had been fired after revelations of document 
destruction. Mr. Duncan said that he didn't understand why this was 
happening, because he and the Enron audit team "didn't do anything 
wrong." testified Shannon Adlong. ... Ms. Adlong also testified about 
the shredding efforts in Mr. Duncan's office, which began on Oct. 15 
after Mr. Duncan received an e-mail from the firm's headquarters in 
Chicago about being in compliance with the document policy. But it 
wasn't until the following week, she testified, that she and Mr. 
Duncan started cleaning out his files, shredding nearly a foot-high 
stack of Enron and other documents. She also told the court that her 
now infamous Nov. 9 e-mail that called for "no more shredding," was 
her idea. ... After her testimony, court adjourned for the 
weekend. ... Earlier, John E. Stewart, an in-house Andersen adviser, 
testified to friction between his colleagues and the Enron team over 
the energy trader's frequent attempts to push the bounds of generally 
accepted accounting principles. ... Ms. Adlong, whose cross-
examination is set to begin Monday, will be followed by John Riley, 
an Andersen audit partner in San Diego who used to work at the 
Securities and Exchange Commission, Andersen lawyers say.

Full Story: Andersen Witness Packs a Punch With Her Teary-Eyed 
Testimony

Day 21 (June 3)

Highlights: John Riley, an Andersen partner and former top federal 
regulator, said that he heard a shredder running when he came to 
Houston last October to look into problematic Enron accounting, and 
advised David Duncan, the firm's top Enron auditor, against 
destroying documents. ... Andersen lead lawyer Rusty Hardin also 
tried to show that when it became apparent that Enron needed to 
restate more than four years of earnings, Mr. Riley stood firm that 
Enron should disclose its need to restate right away. ... While the 
testimony further clouds the actions of Mr. Duncan, who has admitted 
knowing before Mr. Riley's visit to Houston that the SEC had launched 
an informal inquiry into Enron, it won't necessarily help acquit 
Andersen. ... Earlier, prosecutor Samuel Buell sought to portray Mr. 
Duncan's former secretary Shannon Adlong, who sobbed on the stand 
Friday while recollecting the day Mr. Duncan told her he had been 
fired, as a loyal employee of Mr. Duncan. ... Mr. Riley is Andersen's 
final witness. Prosecutors will continue to cross-examine him early 
Tuesday and have indicated they may call one or two additional 
rebuttal witnesses. Jury instructions and closing arguments in the 
three-week-old case could come as early as Tuesday afternoon.

Full Story: Andersen Partner Riley Testifies He Heard Shredder in 
October

Page One: As Trial Nears End, Andersen Case Proves to Be Trickier 
Than Thought

Day 22 (June 4)

Highlights: The defense rested. All that is left are the closing 
summations and the jury's verdict. ... Judge Melinda Harmon indicated 
she would sequester jurors during deliberations. Closing arguments 
are slated to begin Wednesday morning. Each side will be allowed as 
many as four hours to sum up its case. ... Prosecutors called only 
one rebuttal witness, an FBI agent who read a short portion of a 
previously released report by Andersen lawyers this spring that 
summarized findings from the firm's internal investigation into last 
fall's shredding campaign. The section said that two partners deleted 
an "unusually large number of e-mails" on Oct. 8. ... Andersen 
attorney Rusty Hardin brought the firm's case to an end after the 
second day of testimony from partner John Riley. Throughout his cross-
examination, prosecutor Andrew Weissmann hammered at the 
reasonableness of Mr. Riley's assertion that he hadn't given much 
thought about the prospects for an SEC inquiry into Andersen's work 
for Enron until around Nov. 5. ... Mr. Weissmann also questioned Mr. 
Riley about his work as a "fix-it man" called in to resolve 
accounting blowups at Andersen clients Waste Management Inc. and 
Sunbeam Corp. during the late 1990s. ... Separately, Judge Harmon 
ruled on what information jurors will be permitted to hear about 
three Andersen figures who declined to testify when called as 
witnesses by the government. ... Judge Harmon also added a line in 
the jury instructions stating that jurors may consider Mr. Duncan's 
guilty plea in evaluating the testimony he gave at trial.

Full Story: Defense Rests in Andersen Case, After Tough Cross-
Examination

Day 23 (June 5)

Highlights: The government, in the summation of its case, portrayed 
Andersen as a firm whose top lawyers and partners anticipated weeks 
before Enron's meltdown that they would face scrutiny from securities 
regulators and scrambled to destroy any Enron documents they 
could. ... Andersen attorney Rusty Hardin countered with a statement 
that focused on how the government didn't prove anyone was told 
directly to destroy documents. ... Mr. Hardin said the government had 
produced "not one piece of evidence" that Andersen had intended to 
impede or subvert an SEC inquiry. ... Late Wednesday night the case 
was put in the hands of the jurors, 12 ordinary Texans, who will 
decide whether they should find Andersen guilty of obstructing an 
official government proceeding. ... Sparks flew again between Mr. 
Hardin and Judge Melinda Harmon late Wednesday after Mr. Hardin rose 
to complain that prosecutor Andrew Weissmann had begun telling jurors 
about evidence already deemed inadmissible. The judge screamed at Mr. 
Hardin to sit down. He refused until a federal marshal finally walked 
to the defense-counsel table.

Full Story: Trial of Andersen Heads to Jury After Lively Closing 
Statements

Day 24 (June 6)

Highlights: Jurors called it quits for the night after spending nine 
hours holed up in deliberations without reaching a verdict. ... The 
nine-man, three-woman jury sent three notes to Judge Harmon during 
deliberations, asking for, among other things, 11 copies of her jury 
instructions, a large timeline of the case used by Mr. Hardin, the 
Andersen attorney, and the entire testimony of David Duncan. Judge 
Harmon ruled that she would read excerpts only, upon request.

Full Story: Andersen Jurors Deliberate for 9 Hours Without Verdict

Days 25-27 (June 7-9)

Highlights: Jurors deliberated thoughout most of the weekend without 
reaching a verdict. On their second day of deliberations (June 7), 
the jurors spent about an hour listening to a court reporter read 
back testimony from David Duncan about his April 9 guilty plea to 
directing mass shredding of Enron-related documents. Jurors also 
heard testimony of Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent Raju Bhatia, 
who said during the prosecution's brief rebuttal case that Michael 
Odom, a top partner in Andersen's Houston office, deleted a mass 
amount of Enron-related e-mails two days before he promoted the 
policy during an Oct. 10 continuing-education presentation. ... The 
jury will be sequestered until a verdict is reached.

Full Story: Andersen Jurors Deliberate for Fourth Day Without Verdict

Day 28 (June 10)

Highlights: Jurors in the criminal obstruction-of-justice trial 
retired to their hotel rooms after a fifth day of deliberations 
without reaching a verdict.

While members of the nine-man, three-woman jury have made no 
statements to Judge Harmon about their progress, the length of their 
deliberations has triggered speculation that jurors are divided on 
how to rule, raising the prospect of a hung jury.

Full Story: Jury in Andersen Case Calls It a Night -- Again

Updated June 11, 2002 12:34 a.m. EDT

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