Mark Lanier attacks a cardiologist in the Merck trial:
Mark Lanier, who used the metaphor of a person being shoved off a cliff in his opening statement to jurors March 6, returned to that theme with his first question.
“If a person’s standing at the edge of a cliff, do you think it’s OK to go ahead and push him off?” Lanier asked.
“Absolutely, it’s not appropriate to push him off,” Rayburn replied.





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