Trial practitioners often refer — in tongue-and-cheek fashion — to the appellate court as the “common enemy.” Those same practitioners politely, however assuredly, hold appellate lawyers in the same regard.Although this is clearly professional banter for laughs, such as all good jokes, it sprouts from a kernel of truth. The “truth” being that there can too often be a disconnect between the everyday stresses of criminal trial calls and what is perceived as the ivory tower of the appellate …