Your role is as a young lawyer at a legal firm in charge of defending Arthur Andersen AA against the District Attorney (DA) on the charge of obstruction of justice due to the fact that your client is accused of shredding incriminating documents related to the Enron audit. Your client, Arthur Andersen, does not dispute that the Houston office shredded documents or signed off on suspect accounting at Enron, etc. However, AA’s defence is that there were a few “bad apples” (bad employees) in its Houston office and that this is where the case starts and ends. AA has already fired the culprit,