"With criminals," the appeal says, "we must exchange other things, not buy our properties from them."

My brother was killed because he knew what that appeal said.

"The evidence against Quattrone was not simply thin, but legally insufficient," his appeal said.

"Russian democracy is young and too dependent on the recent totalitarian past," the appeal said.

"This symbolic act is demanded by the memory of the victims and their descendants," the appeal said.

The appeal of simple pleasures, some will say.

Couple of balls later, same appeal against Smith but Illingworth again says no.

His appeals lawyers say that the trial had serious problems.

Such appeals in a political context, the league said, risk alienating people and also run "contrary to the American ideal."

"There is little chance the bodyguards would know what is happening on the 11th floor," the new appeal says.