On the recordJuly 24, 2002
the prosecutor allegedly threatened a witness and said if he did not say what he wanted him to say he would be indicted. He did not say what he wanted him to say and he was indicted. That could be prosecutorial misconduct. I do not know. If the court upholds the decision that they have made and they sentence the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) to prison, I certainly will vote for expulsion, but I do not know whether there was prosecutorial misconduct. I do know that two jurors, after watching the ethics hearing, said if we had known and seen what we saw before the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, we would have voted otherwise. That creates a little bit of doubt in my mind, and I do not know and I do not think any of my colleagues know tonight if the judge might say, hey, because of the jurors' reevaluation of this, maybe we should order a new trial.
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