Hershel Hiram McKnight v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• eschewing wooden application of the rule: “the emphasis is not merely on the fact that an appeal was not taken, but rather on why the appeal was not taken”
• “[T]he emphasis is not merely on the fact that an appeal was not taken, but rather on why the appeal was not taken.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).