donpizmeov, Tourist, Chris Scott
There is no stall in normal law and in alternate law there is no alpha prot or alpha Max but only Vsw. So in alternate law the speed brakes don't go in automatically. Also in alternate 2 if aircraft is pitched with insufficient thrust even with stick neutral aircraft will keep trimming back to maintain 1G till it stalls. If SS is kept full back it can drive THS to full.
In these accidents the starting point is unnecessary, extreme and bizarre application of flight control in longitudinal axis. If pilots had the knowledge that at those altitudes in alternate law full back stick is fatal they needn't have to know much more about laws.