It explains why Judge Posner, a libertarianish-minded conservative, might vote to set aside a criminal conviction, a very rare thing for a federal appeals judge to do these days. Eric said he won a habeas case on appeal to the 7th Cir. This came up because I remarked that this doesn't much happen in the federal system these days.
jks
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