WHEN U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE Sim Lake of Houston instructed jurors in the criminal case of former Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling, he told the panel to consider the so-called “ostrich” rule.
The eight-woman, four-man jury did carefully consider that instruction, which juror Wendy Vaughan says some of the jurors who returned guilty verdicts against Lay and Skilling on May 25 referred to as the “head in the sand rule.”
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