Perspective
Jul. 26, 2016
Appeals are not reruns
By the time a case reaches an appellate court the trial court will have rendered dozens, perhaps hundreds, of rulings. The chance that all of these rulings will prove error-free is effectively zero. By David M. Balabanian
LESSONS LEARNED
By the time a case reaches an appellate court the trial court will have rendered dozens, perhaps hundreds, of rulings. Some will have been carefully considered, but most will have been issued with little opportunity for reflection or review of the record or the law. Others, sound when made, will have been undermined by later developments in the case, but remain uncorrected.
The chance...
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