This argument troubles Steven Erickson, a forensic psychologist and legal scholar at Widener University School of Law.

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"This case is custom-made for a plea, " said Wesley Oliver, a professor at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, who was in court Tuesday.

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"There cannot be a rule that says if you have a representative on the board, you can't make a bid for the company, " said Lawrence Hamermesh, a professor at Delaware's Widener University School of Law.

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"If you explain too much, people will focus on your explanation and forget your original position, " says Hal Shorey, psychologist and assistant professor at the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University, in Chester, Pa.

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"If you are psychologically aware, you will realize you are feeling anxious and picking up rejection cues, " says Hal Shorey, a psychologist and assistant professor for the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University in Chester, Pa.

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"Learn to separate your real family from your idealized vision and accept them in all of their glorious imperfections, " says psychologist Hal Shorey, an assistant professor at the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University in Chester, Pa.

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