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According to Scalia, the problem begins in law school, where tomorrow's judges digest a steady diet of fusty 19 th -century English appellate decisions, and taste--for the first time--the joys of reasoning by analogy and precedent.
His appellate opinions contain long expository "asides" when he disagrees with the law as handed down by the Supreme Court.
For the benefit of the uninitiated let me say that lawyers, deluded or not, overwhelmingly believe that with the exception of constitutions and of statutes enacted by legislatures (and rules under them), precedent is what the law is made of in the United States; that the law existed before written language in the tradition of “customs that runneth not to the contrary’ and continues to thrive in the printed decisions; that the statutes themselves remain unsettled until rounded out by precedent; that precedents may become so venerable as to become platitudes but may also be as fresh as the undried ink on today's appellate court decision; and that when a lawyer searches for as recent a decision as he can find, in a jurisdiction as near as possible, on facts as close to his client's case as possible, never overruled or modified, and pronouncing the law as clearly as possible, he is doing what he should be doing and might well be guilty of malpractice for failing to do so.
Meanwhile, appellate lawyer Alan Dershowitz predicted McVeigh will fire his attorneys and base his appeal on their incompetence.
8 million to the Office of the Appellate Defender, which handles appeals for indigent criminal defendants in the First Department.
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