You feel that thinking you have substantial evidence is the same thing as having it.
I looked at stuff and have an opinion based on my background knowledge.
If your case is denied by a judge, your case must have no merit or you haven't met the basic criteria.
It means one particular human felt that it had no merit. Or wanted it precluded for other reasons.
Work within the law.
That is best when it works.
There is an excellent book, Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, by Silverglate (forward by Dershowitz), that goes through a lot of examples of it not working.
Lots of people think that the legal system is sufficiently forthright. Me, I think it's got plenty of aspects that are like politics and the making of sausage.
Or I guess patch together a violent mob and just try and overthrow the government. I hear that works out well.
Usually not the best. But there are occasional counter examples, such as the founding of the US.