At a minimum, ... would eliminate the possibility of the death sentence and could exculpate him from the specific conspiracies charged in this case.

because of its unreliability, incompleteness and inaccuracy.

Unless the United States demonstrates a legitimate reason why these recordings are essential to an issue in dispute either in the guilt or penalty phase of this case, these tape recordings should not be admitted at trial,

I have made the decision.

we're not going to get into a political discussion at this point.

In all the years I've been on the bench, I've never seen such an egregious violation of the court's rule on witnesses.