Ladies and gentleman of the public, we present for your perusal a sampling of the unparalleled linguistic fencing found in the Cyril Wecht case file:

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"There is a risk for those who have been subjected to the full extent of Wecht's ongoing campaign of obfuscation, misdirection, half-truth, misstatement and outright falsehood -- a risk of becoming numb to the repeated false assertions or, worse yet, ceasing to be vigilant in the face of the relentlessly dishonest onslaught. However, the government will labor, yet again, to correct the record that Wecht's truthless motion would otherwise distort beyond recognition."

-- Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Stallings, attacking the defense

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"Against a written record conclusively proving otherwise, AUSA Stallings denies generating massive pretrial publicity with clear anti-Semitic overtones and, if not enough, does it again in advance of a scheduled retrial by the complete recitation of an entirely irrelevant letter used the first time to generate massive adverse publicity. Given the prior history, this is not a refutation of misconduct but a brazen repetition of it. Independently, it is yet another act of prosecutorial misconduct."

-- Jerry McDevitt, lawyer for Dr. Cyril Wecht, attacking Mr. Stallings.

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"Defendant accused this court, with an abundance of innuendo and references to published articles but not to actual court record evidence to support accusation, of running 'the Schwab Squad,' i.e., a team consisting of the U.S. attorney, her assistants, the FBI, and 'virulent' anti-Semites, among other conspirators, in an effort to ensure defendant's conviction."

-- U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab, denying a third motion by the defense to recuse himself

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"You're being contacted by America's National Police Force. ... This is frightening. I'll just tell you, my wife grew up in Norway as a child during the occupation of the Nazis. This has been an anamnestic reaction for her. She can hear the pounding of their boots on the gravel outside their home. She can see the Nazi storm troopers coming into their house and taking over ..."

--Dr. Cyril Wecht on "KD/PG Sunday Edition," April 13, after the FBI contacted jurors following the mistrial

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"Defendant's abhorrent comparison to Nazis, however, was not an aberration. It was part and parcel of a carefully calibrated and orchestrated media campaign of unprecedented scope and maliciousness. The strategy? To further poison the jury pool by clapperclawing the government and misrepresenting the nature of the prior jury deliberations."

-- Mr. Stallings

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"Without question, Wecht's accusations of anti-Semitism are by far the most repugnant of his slurs ... Wecht thus accuses the government of intentionally injecting Wecht's religion, and then implies that the government has done so as part of an effort to link his conduct to reprehensible anti-Semitic stereotypes. This is part of a smear campaign so disgusting that it has actually included Wecht comparing government employees with Nazi storm troopers."

-- Mr. Stallings

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"From the outset of this case, the Hon. Arthur J. Schwab has demonstrated hostility to the defense and to the adversary process, persistent favoritism toward the government and increasing personalization of the issues in a way that ignores the duty of an Article-III judge to ensure impartiality."

-- Mr. McDevitt, attacking the judge

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"Wecht's claims that the judge displayed 'hostility' to Wecht's counsel would be akin to hearing Napoleon's sharpshooter complain about the 'hostile' way the Sphinx' nose fell off. In other words, it was Jerry McDevitt sniping at the court with open, overt and aggressive hostility in word, action and deed, towards a sitting U.S. district judge, not the other way around."

-- Mr. Stallings, attacking the defense

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"The significant expenditure of attorney and the defendant's own time in interviews with local newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, and late-night talk shows demonstrates that the defense team has more than sufficient time to plan and implement their relentless media activities, time which certainly could be spent preparing for trial."

-- Judge Schwab, rejecting a delay

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"The manifest hatred for Dr. Wecht and the defense team reflected in AUSA Stephen Stallings' filing goes well beyond personal and extends to the very idea that Dr. Wecht and his counsel would vigorously defend the charges made against Dr. Wecht and contest the wrongful tactics employed by him and Special Agent Bradley Orsini."

-- Mr. McDevitt, in asking for dismissal of the case

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"An intensive media firestorm has ensued since this court declared a mistrial and discharged the jury on that day. Further, the court finds that this firestorm was carelessly (if not deliberately) set and subsequently fanned, in large part, by the frequent incendiary appearances and comments of defense counsel in public fora, and that, from this court's firsthand knowledge of facts and events that are of record, many of the media accounts generated from those comments have been inaccurate and misleading. Accordingly, the court hereby reminds all counsel of record that they are officers of the court, and as such, they should conduct themselves professionally ..."

-- Judge Schwab, complaining about the publicity