This may or may not have been taken out of context. The way it was tacked on to the end of the article makes me wonder about the source. How did the writer get

This may or may not have been taken out of context. The way it was tacked on to the end of the article makes me wonder about the source. How did the writer get that quote? The writer definitely wasn't digging through court filings. Likely from the prosecutor or opponent of the professor. It's not hard to imagine a context where he uses that in a reductio ad absurdum argument that a judge/prosecutor intentionally misrepresents.