The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court’s decision. Appeals are made on the basis of matters of law, not fact. What this means is that the legal basis for an appeal must be a claim that the law was misapplied, either substantively or procedurally. An appeal cannot be made on the basis of disputes about the facts of the case, or dislike for the outcome of the case. For example, if you are convicted of a crime, you generally cannot appeal solely because you believe you re innocent.
Procrastination is not an option when seeking appellate review. Failure to file an appeal by the proper deadline will cause the appeal to fail regardless of its legal merits. An appeal based on the claim that evidence of “actual innocence” has been discovered post-trial must be filed within a specified time, which varies according to the nature of the appeal (e. G. , an appeal for retrial, a writ of habeas corpus, or another type of appeal) and the jurisdiction. According to The Innocence Project, thirty-three states require that claims of innocence based on ewe evidence be brought within six months of the final appeal.
The specific procedures for appealing vary from one country to another. The nature of an appeal varies depending on the nature of the case as well as the rules of the court where the case was prosecuted. There are many types of standard of review for appeals. An appellate court is a court that hears cases on appeal from another court. Depending on the particular legal rules that apply to each circumstance, a party to a court case who is unhappy with the result might be able to challenge that result in an appellate court on specific grounds.
These grounds typically could include errors of law, fact, or procedure. If the defendant in a criminal case, or a plaintiff in a civil case, believes that their original trial was flawed in some manner, they may appeal it to the next higher court (i. E. : The Court of Appeals) and ask for a review. An appeals court is not automatically required to review the case, but if they do, they will scrutinize the original case for possible errors in applying the law or in judicial procedure and issue a ruling either affirming the verdict or sending it back for re-trial or overturning it altogether.
If the defendant/plaintiff is not happy with the finding of the Appeals Court they may once again appeal, this time to the Supreme Court, where the process begins anew. The procedure is the same whether it is in the State circuits or the Federal circuits It should be noted and emphasized that, the only court in the process that actually conducts a trial is the court of original jurisdiction. The Appeals Court and the Supreme Court both conduct “en banc” hearings (i. E. : judges only). Civil courts, criminal courts, Social Security?
Social Security could improve their appeals process by hiring more judges; it takes one to two years to get before one once an appeal has been filed. I would imagine more judges everywhere would improve the process. But it probably won’t happen because of budget problems and, God forbid, more judges be hired. We wouldn’t want to make government bigger. The first case that comes to mind is Roe v. Wade which led to the landmark ruling allowing women to have legal abortions in America. In 1970 a suit was filed in a U. S. District court in Texas on behalf of Norma L McElroy who was referred to as “Jane Roe” to protect her identity.
The defendant in the case was the Dallas County D. A. , Henry Wade, who represented the state of Texas. McElroy claimed that became pregnant as a result of being raped. She couldn’t get an abortion because of the Texas criminal abortion laws, which did not allow women to get an abortion unless it was medically advised for the purpose of saving the life of the mother. The argument put forward by McElroy was that the Texas statutes were unconstitutionally vague and that they took away her right to personal privacy protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth,
Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court ruled in Microgrooves favor but did not feel able to forbid the state of Texas from enforcing the law that made abortions illegal. Roe v. Wade reached the U. S. Supreme Court on appeal. The court issued its decision on 22 January 1973 overturning Text’s abortion laws. The Court held that the right to privacy is a fundamental right and that this right “is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. Believe that this particular appeal was successful because McElroy (Roe) had a valid point.
It should be up to the woman to decide if she wants to have a child that she didn’t plan on giving birth to, especially under the circumstances that she had to endure. It’s important that our criminal justice system keeps up with the changing time. We don’t live in the same simple world that we use to live in when those old laws were made. What amazes me is the fact that the same state that leads the nation in executions (Texas) is the state that tried to prohibit Norma L McElroy from having an abortion.
In don’t believe that I can think of any ways to improve the appeals recess because like every other aspect of the criminal, it will get better with time. Our justice system is better than it was 20 years ago. One change that I believe would improve the appeal process is to give defendants more time to file for an appeal. Mainly because of court appointed attorneys and their lack of experience and or compassion for their client. It’s hard to win a case when your lawyer doesn’t care one way or another if you win your case.
