Senator Stevens is a strange guy. Wonder what his testimony will do to the jury:

“And the chair is still at your house?” prosecutor Brenda Morris asked.

“Yes,” Stevens said.

“How is that not a gift?”

“He bought that chair as a gift, but I refused it as a gift,” Stevens said. “He put it there and said it was my chair. I told him I would not accept it as a gift. We have lots of things in our house that don’t belong to us.”

Playing to the jury, Morris appeared confused.

“So, if you say it’s not a gift, it’s not a gift?” she said.

“I refused it as a gift,” Stevens replied. “I let him put it in our basement at his request.”

I suppose in an ideal world we would look to a Senator to be someone careful with words, able to craft legislation in our best interests and ferret out nuance and meaning to make laws more exact. This indicates he does not even have a reasonable description for the time he “let” a $2,700 massage chair be delivered to his basement. The chair arrived and no compensation was returned. If not a gift, what then? A seat to nowhere?