On several occasions during proceedings, Judge Sim Lake soundly rejected the defense's highly technical objections.

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On the other hand, the crux of the prosecution's closing argument is actually out of its hands--it rests, rather, with Judge Sim Lake's "charges of law" to the jury.

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On October 31st, an appeals court, though upholding the conviction, threw out the sentence, concluding that Sim Lake, a Houston judge, had greatly overstated the losses caused by Mr Olis.

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Judge Sim Lake, a by-the-books judge if there ever was one, will levy a verdict himself because Lay waved his right to a jury trial in hopes of a speedy decision on the bank fraud allegation.

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But the players in the final trial--the Enron Task Force, Judge Sim Lake, defense attorneys Dan Petrocelli and Mike Ramsey, and the two defendants--were not in Houston to provide closure for Enron shareholders and employees, or the final chapter of the corporate accounting scandals of the 1990s.

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