Defense attorney Russell “Rusty” Hardin Jr. is doing his best to portray former Arthur Andersen auditor David Duncan, the government’s key witness in Andersen’s obstruction of justice trial, as an innocent family man who was pressured to plead guilty to a crime and testify for the government.
During cross-examination over two days last week, Hardin painted a picture of Duncan as a man who believed he did nothing wrong by directing Andersen employees to destroy Enron Corp. documents, but was somehow persuaded to change his mind and plead guilty to a charge of obstruction of justice in the weeks after he was fired by Andersen on Jan. 15.
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