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So began a landmark legal challenge that would end up before the nine justices, argued by a 31-year-old lawyer with a coffee-colored beard and scruffy ponytail, Sebastian Graber, the husband of the sign-toting appellee, activist Mary T. Grace.

In the grandiloquent language of the law, the Most Junior Junior Assistant had stated that the appellant’s case was so utterly frivolous, so completely lacking in merit, that there was no need for the appellee to respond.

“The district courtʹs order releasing appellee Brendan Dassey is stayed pending resolution of this appeal,” the order stated.

Raich that the restrictive federal law supersedes the permissive state one—even as applied to the appellee, who was growing the stuff for her personal use only in compliance with state law.

“The appeals court has certainly cracked open a door. And anytime a court opens a door to new testimony – new fact-finding – that’s a big deal for the appellee,” she wrote.