Will Senator Stevens pay at sentencing for election-related comments?

I was intrigued to see from this local reporting some of what Senator Ted Stevens had to say in a debate last night about his conviction earlier this week.  Consider these excerpts:

Stevens:... [T]he case is still pending on the basis of mentions which we filed for a new trial or for a dismissal of the case for prosecutorial misconduct.  I have not been convicted of anything.... 

I’m not going to step down.  I have not been convicted.  I have a got a case pending against me, and probably the worst case of prosecutorial -- misconduct by the prosecutors -- that is known.

I had a talk this afternoon, with one of the attorneys here, a former U.S. attorney, who told me he was appalled by what went on in that case.  So I think you’ll find out.  I will succeed and I will be found innocent.

Of course, Senator Stevens was never going to have a chance to get a sentencing discount for acceptance responsibility after refusing to admit his guilt.  But I am now wondering if prosecutors might formally or informally want him punished for making these kinds of severe assertions about prosecutorial misconduct.  I have seen more than a few cases in which prosecutors have urge a sentence at the top of an applicable guideline range because a defendant was defiant in the face of a guilty verdict.  Senator Stevens is clearly defiant, and I suppose time will tell if he might pay at sentencing for this defiance.

On the topic of prosecutorial misconduct, I was also intrigued to see this local report from a few days ago:

The issue of misconduct on the part of Justice Department prosecutors has come up again in Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial, this time post-conviction.  A day after Stevens was convicted on seven felony counts of lying on his Senate disclosure forms, his chief lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, sent a letter of complaint to Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

Sullivan asks for the Justice Department to "commence a formal investigation into the repeated misconduct by federal prosecutors in connection with this case."  They add that the trial was "irretrievably tainted by the prosecution team's zeal to convict a high-profile but innocent defendant."  The Justice Department had no comment on the letter.

Some recent related posts:

• Senator Stevens convicted on all counts
• Some sentencing questions after Senator Stevens conviction
• How should (and will) Senator Stevens' political past and future impact his sentencing?
• Senator Ted Stevens not (yet) disenfranchised