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I got completely lost somewhere in here among all the various negatings:

The miniscule mention of abuse in the affidavits is insufficient to find the Mississippi Supreme Court’s decision was unreasonable in finding there was no deficient performance and that there is no prejudice. Nor is the decision of the district court wrong in finding that the state court decision was not unreasonable.

Ouch! That’s some sort of record, don’t you think?

9 comments to Great Moments in Appellate Advocacy

somslawyer

January 26, 2010 at 7:37 pm

What appellate “genius” from a big-city firm is responsible for that one?
Anderson

January 26, 2010 at 8:00 pm

I think there’s a bit too much inadvertent alliteration in that passage. God knows what the rest of the brief is like.
kennebunklegal

January 26, 2010 at 9:12 pm

I love briefs like this. They make my lesson plans so much easier!
The Empowered Paralegal » Blog Archive » Record negativity

January 27, 2010 at 9:17 am

[...] Professional paralegals should be pros at concise, clear writing. Today’s exercise is to fix this excerpt from a brief spotted by Tom Freeland at NMissCommentor: [...]
Tightlip

January 27, 2010 at 10:15 am

The superfluous slight of sarcasm is sufficient to satisfy this reader’s woeful wanderlust for the nuance of negates and overwrought relay of self righteous rambling.
billdees

January 27, 2010 at 10:27 am

I thought Spiro Agnew died in 1996.
ampal

January 27, 2010 at 10:42 am

agnew’s speeechwriters are not dead nor have they become non-responsive to the unreasonable toll of not avoiding double or triple negations.
Outsider

January 27, 2010 at 12:06 pm

It is not that it is it is that it is not is that it it is

Charley
the movie.
a friend of the law

January 27, 2010 at 1:45 pm

A flowchart and decoder should have been provided with that brief.

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