Ordinarily, in a criminal trial, the jury wants to hear from the accused. Although the court will instruct that no negative inference can be drawn if the defendant does not take the stand, as a matter of human nature, jurors…

This is the seventh in a series of articles analyzing the federal grand jury indictment charging lawyer Michael Sussmann with making a materially false statement to FBI General Counsel James Baker. The indictment spelled out Sussmann’s involvement in a thus-far…