Good advice on issue selection
04 October 2013
West’s Headnote of the Day is a good one for appellate lawyers:
In raising issues for appeal, losers in a trial can go hunting for relief with a rifle or a shotgun, and the rifle is better; the shotgun approach may hit the target with something but it runs the risk of obscuring significant issues by dilution.
U.S. v. Stokes, 2013 WL 3948949 (7th Cir. Aug. 1, 2013)
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