right to appeal
Challenge a verdict
The right to appeal is the legal entitlement to have a higher court review a lower court's decision.
Most legal systems guarantee this right for at least one level of review, though appeals typically address legal errors rather than retry facts: The defendant exercised her right to appeal the conviction.
Constitutional protections often ensure this right in criminal cases.
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- access to justiceRight to legal remedies
- day in courtChance to present one's case
- habeas corpusWrit challenging lawful custody
- remandReturn for further proceedings
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- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- defendant rightsMiranda warning, presumption of innocence, fair trial, legal representation, public defender
- legal rightshabeas corpus, jury trial, freedom of religion, trial by jury, speedy trial
- trial rightsfair trial, impartial jury, impartial judge, presumption of innocence, speedy trial
- fairnessfair play, fair shake, fair treatment, fair and square, fair share
- civil rightsequal protection, civil liberties, desegregation, freedom of religion, Montgomery bus boycott
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