Say what?

Just a quick shot here, I'll probably do a longer entry about something else later tonight, but I thought it noteworthy that Barry Bonds requested a dismissal of his federal perjury charges yesterday.

Of course Bonds is going to make such a request, though it seems unlikely that it will be granted. What I find interesting is the nature of the request, in which his lawyers argued that "the indictment is 'scattershot' and noted for its 'striking inartfulness.'"

I post this here because I am hoping that someone with a broader vocabulary than I will stumble across this and be able to tell me what scattershot and inartfulness mean. I don't think they are in my dictionary.