Assistant Crown attorney Paul Alexander comes across as an expressive, even ebullient, personality on his home answering machine and in a blog he co-wrote with his wife about the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

“Hello, you’ve reached the entity that is Kim and Paul Alexander,” the assistant Crown attorney says playfully in his phone answering message. “No aspect of the entity is home to take your call . . . (but) one or the other aspect of the entity will get back to you at its first opportunity.”

That opportunity apparently has not arisen since the Star began leaving messages Friday seeking more information about Paul Alexander’s presence in the public gallery at the retrial of a case he prosecuted last year.

After the jury and key witness complained that Alexander was distracting them with exaggerated facial expressions, the judge declared a second mistrial.

“We’re suckers for Olympic wear,” the couple writes in the Jan. 23 posting of the blog “The Entity’s Olympic Odyssey.”

“Even for past Olympics when we got no closer than our living room we were fully decked out in official Team Canada gear.

“You can only imagine how obsessed we’ve become this time.”

The couple writes that they have been together 13 years, married nearly 10 and “are as giddy as newlyweds.”

Kim Alexander practises litigation as an associate at Teplitsky, Colson Barristers in Toronto.

While studying law at the University of Toronto, Paul Alexander participated in mock-trial competitions called Moot court.

At the time, Alexander was also known as Paul McCulloch.

In 1998, he participated in the Gale Cup Moot Court Competition, which brought together 120 of the country’s best student litigants to test their advocacy skills.

He was awarded the Dickson Medal as the competition’s best oral advocate.

Under the last name McCulloch, he told the Star that a background in debating and an undergraduate degree in philosophy proved indispensable.

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“Debating has put me at ease with standing up and speaking in front of people,” he said. “But I had to adjust my debating style. You have to be deferential to the bench, not aggressive.”

With files from Dan Robson