""Perhaps with regards to your""

Huh?


""you must agree that the system is likely to be loaded against him in terms of what they would be prepared to consider significant.""

I don't have to agree with that, but I do, for what my opinion is worth :)

I would expect (as I noted earlier) that it is an uphill battle to appeal any trial result, but one involving coldly executed murder (regardless of who did it), and more expectedly one involving the death of any enforcement official it is really a steep slope. The weight of the evidence would need to be compelling and sound for a good prognosis of success.

I suspect legal representatives in other homicide cases involding law enforcemet officials have a similar steep slope to climb.