The lead county prosecutor said that, aside from Muhammad's self-serving statements, it was "just an awful killing", like others he had seen.
They would kill a Bajoran woman in cold blood just to make a self-serving political statement.
That is the most self-serving statement that flies in the face of every action he took for months.
"He is making a false, totally self-serving statement," Ms. Seltzer said.
In fact Mr. Garrison's sins were worse than that: He had appropriated another human being to make a self-serving political statement.
At first he shrugged it off as a self-serving statement.
You should not, however, have allowed self-serving statements to distort the historical record.
If you wouldn't accept Cheney's self-serving statements in any other context, why take them at face value in this context?
Mr. Morris said that if the "steady diet of one-sided, self-serving" statements persisted, potential jurors would become prejudiced against the prosecution.
What does he have anything at all besides mere self-serving statements?