By this logic, Clemenza didn’t kill Pauly because he was taking a leak outside the car and worrying about the canoli.
Some key requirement of the law was allegedly based on the testimony of a stooge doctor. The only remedy is to reconsider the case in light of the failure in the justice process, which is what the appellate court told the trial court to do. It could still come out as sentencing upheld, but if so it would have to do on other specific grounds — not the grounds of the testimony of the stooge.