“Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.”

—  Alex Kozinski

Concluding words of dissent from a denial of rehearing en banc in United States v. Ziegler http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=995042337184945695, 2007.

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