State Circuit Court Analysis

The state circuit court of appeals is a three-prong system. The lower level is the state circuit court of appeals, and the second would be federal appeals, and for the most controversial cases the United States Supreme Court. The duty of all of the lower level c courts are the same…to determine if the trial court did make any legal errors, and if so can a new legislation or law be made to ensure it does not happen again. The duty of the Supreme Court is to determine if a decision the Federal Court made is constitutional. If it is not the judgment is over turned and will not stand. The circuit courts, its function is “ to hear appeals from the district courts according to the willingness of the plaintiffs and limited only by the resources and legal ingenuity of the losing side” (Vines, 1963). Most often the decision of the appeal court is final, unless the court send the case back to the trial court for any necessary proceeding to take place. Another option is for the defense to ask the Supreme Court to review the case. …show more content…
This is a document that is the formal request to the Supreme Court. The defense must keep in mind that the Supreme Court only “selects only about 80 of the most significant cases to review” (Unknown) every session and they do not have to grant a review. The Supreme Court will typically agree to hear a case only if it involves an unusual important legal principle, or if more then two appellate courts have deciphered the law in question differently. There may also be a very small number of circumstances when the Supreme Court must hear an appeal because law requires them