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You know what, Host? Ted Wells is a lot smarter than you or me or just about any of the reporters (as to the latter that's not really saying much). Judge Walton is a big boy, he's been around the block, and he knows which requests are real and which are tactical. He's not likely to get pissed off; most of the federal judges I know view this stuff as being all in a day's work. A lot of this stuff, including from the prosecution, is an elaborate kabuki dance, with the jury as the intended audience.
As you know, I'm an attorney, which is why I don't convince myself of stuff early in a case I'm not involved with. I know better. (For instance, it took a good few weeks for me to be convinced OJ really was guilty. After that, though, I was pretty hard to dissuade, and to this day I think that jury in his criminal case didn't decide the case on the facts.)
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