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1939
Abstract
Every state provides appellate review of criminal judgments, yet little research examines which factors correlate with favorable outcomes for defendants who seek appellate relief. To address this scholarly gap, this Article exploits the Survey of Criminal Appeals in State Courts (2010) dataset, recently released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for State Courts (hereinafter, "NCSC Study"). The NCSC Study is the first and only publicly available national dataset on state criminal appeals and includes unprecedented information from every state court in the nation with jurisdiction to review criminal judgments.
Recommended Citation
Michael Heise, Nancy J. King, and Nicole A. Heise,
State Criminal Appeals Revealed,
70 Vanderbilt Law Review
1939
(2017)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol70/iss6/13