i know dave bress. i have always liked dave bress. i'm terribly saddened by the fact he's seriously ill. okay? then he says, however, that as long as i am representing the government, i will not oppose this motion to sever. this is not based on any legal grounds. this is based on my own personal respect for david bress. all right? so to me what happened there was that the prosecutor, james neil, made a decision that was based on a factor other than the law, all right? the law, he felt, was clear that severance was not appropriate, but that out of respect, his own personal respect, he would not have the government oppose the motion to sever. all right? and the judge denied the motion to sever, and when we worked on the appeal, we really thought how could -- i hate to say this, how can we use this against the government, all right, because as i wrote, this was i thought one of the most fair, heart wrenching things i had ever seen from a prosecutor who in the middle of the trial just said, you know, as a matter of law, this is not necess