Appellate used in a sentence

Appellate in a sentence as an adjective

He worked as a law clerk for a federal appellate judge.

I don't think #4 is correct; that wasn't a trial, but a review of the appellate decision.

The criminal appellate process in Texas has as many steps in it as most states have.

These cases are not only often very factually complex, but of a nature that leaves more scope for appellate review.

It's this interpretation that the appellate court affirmed, and reasonably so!

But the controlling appellate opinion here rejected that interpretation; the police cannot search a cell phone to "inventory" its contents.

It should be noted that appellate practice, which is really where the big debates about legal interpretation happen, the "what does this comma mean" work, is not exactly a cash cow for the industry.

The appellate-level courts have an entirely different and separate infrastructure, written in a different language.

When you read an appellate case, resist the temptation to imagine alternative interpretations of the facts that might lead to a conclusion of innocence; that is a determination for the jury, not the court.

"By agreeing to settle the case, the DHS avoided either any new appellate precedent limiting its borders search authority, or any judicial review of the specific basis for its actions with respect to Mr. House.

The Court's role in hearing such discretionary appeals is to step in and decide important questions of federal law or to determine who is right when the various lower federal appellate courts may have reached conflicting decisions on such points of law in way that cries out of definitive resolution by the highest court.