Appeals

Appellate Courts handle cases differently than the proceedings in a lower court. We have outlined the process in another helpful blog, but there are some other questions people often ask when they contemplate filing an appeal. Typical questions we hear include: Do we...

The state's constitution allows litigants in criminal and civil cases the right to appeal at least once. Rather than retry the case already heard in the lower court, the party who files the appeal (the appellant) must argue that the trial court made a legal error that...