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What Is a Criminal Appeal?

By Steven Rodriguez

After Alan Shore makes his weekly impassioned speech to the jury on Boston Legal, somewhere between the foreman’s reading of the always favorable verdict and the tears and hugs of the newly freed defendant, the plaintiff’s angry lawyer usually shouts, “Your Honor, We will appeal!” So what is an appeal and how does it work? Essentially, an appeal is an opportunity to right a wrong. If someone is convicted of a crime and feels a mistake was made during the trial, he can file a criminal appeal. An appeal is a second chance to obtain justice when an error has been made during a trial. Attorneys, jurors and judges are human so unintentional mistakes do sometimes happen during a trial. An appeal can reverse a conviction, reduce a sentence or result in a new trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).