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Lawfag here. Re Smollett: No, you do not need new evidence to file an appeal. You can claim procedural or evidence (admitting or refusing to admit) maneuverings or other rulings (or judicial statements) during the pre-trial, trial, or post-trial proceedings violated your client's rights (Constitutional, procedural, etc.) or were unfairly prejudicial to your client. You can also claim that you had ineffective assistance of counsel, or the like. There are numerous grounds on which to file an appeal that do not require new evidence. Doesn't mean they'll win. Just time consuming, delaying incarceration (in his case), expensive, time to rally the social justice warriors to ramp up political pressures, threats, etc.

Immediately after the sentencing, I heard a commentator claim that the judge stated in his hour long sentencing preamble that Smollett repeatedly committed perjury during trial and that shows the judge is biased because Smollett is entitled to due process before being "convicted" of perjury. This commentator also claimed the judge "lunged" at a Smollett's female attorney during a proceeding at bench. I don't know the facts, didn't see it, but sounds absurd. From what I saw, there are huge plexiglass barriers up between the judge and everyone else for "COVID COVID COVID."

I thought, "Here we go."

Much more to come, I'm sure.

Including, perhaps, new evidence. But it is not needed for an appeal to be filed.

ICYMI from Feb 23, 2022

Fauci cries over his "soul brother" dying in \in Rwanda — where had been teaching at a medical school that he co-founded — froman acute cardiac eventwhile sleeping,

"Dr. Paul Farmer, physician and humanitarian known for his devotion to providing healthcare to impoverished communities, has died. He was 62."

"Dr. AnthonyFauci, President Joe Biden's top medical adviser,broke down in tearsduring an interview,saying he and Farmer were like "soul brothers,"The New York Times reports.

"He really stands out as one of the most influential global health figures of our time, and I don't think that's a hyperbole," Fauci said, per the Washington Post. "He sacrificed personal comfort to go into the trenches with the people he cared for."

https://people.com/health/dr-paul-farmer-physician-global-health-care-advocate-dies/

The Bills checked in to (Clinton and Gates):

"Paul Farmer changed the way health care is delivered in the most impoverished places on Earth," former presidentBill Clintonwrote on Twitter. "He saw every day as a new opportunity to teach, learn, give, and serve — and it was impossible to spend any time with him and not feel the same."

Bill Gatesechoed, "What a devastating loss. Paul is a hero, and I was fortunate to call him a friend. I have never known anyone who was more passionate about reducing the world's worst inequities in health — or who did more to live by his values."

And :

George Q.Daley, dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Medicine, said in a statement. "I am particularly shaken by his passing because he was not only a consummate colleague and a beloved mentor, but a close friend. To me,Paul represented the heart and soul of Harvard Medical School."

https://people.com/health/dr-paul-farmer-physician-global-health-care-advocate-dies/

Along withPIH (Partners in Health - which Farmers founded), Farmer was Kolokotrones University professor andchair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.He was also the chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

https://people.com/health/dr-paul-farmer-physician-global-health-care-advocate-dies/

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Dr. Farmer might be a stand up physician and one of the "good guys," but the people cited here (commenting on his passing last month) are in a different club.