The five-year process leading to Holmes’s conviction has been long and complex, and an appeal would likely take a long time to litigate, according to Kevin J. O’Brien, a partner at Ford O’Brien Landy and former assistant U.S. attorney.
“The case was so well-combed. [Holmes] had a very impressive legal team” who “left no stone unturned,” O’Brien said. Given that, he added, “it’s just hard to see what critical legal issue would remain that the court of appeals would weigh in on in such a way as to overturn the conviction.”
May 18, 2023