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To: SteveH
I wonder if the defense can file an appeal before the closing arguments are finished. If so, I wonder if some legal scholars would be sending in draft appeals to the defense team as I type.

The defense does not want a mistrial. They want a verdict. They have more than enough ammunition for a later retrial, but if an appeal were granted at this point the only remedy would be a new trial.

1,428 posted on 07/11/2013 11:11:29 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: P-Marlowe

Oh. I did not know filing an immediate appeal would lead to a mistrial. If that is so, then imaginably you are correct.


1,504 posted on 07/11/2013 11:21:18 AM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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