Subject: Re: Guilty on all counts
Albaby, in general, what’s the odds of winning an appeal in this type of ordinary case? Thanks.
In general? Very poor. Most appeals lose. Defense attorneys will fill the record with legal arguments and objections, but success on appeal is rare. It's a high bar to demonstrate reversible error.
Obviously it does happen - people do get their convictions reversed on appeal. The judge made several pre-trial legal rulings that will be fodder for an appellate argument, and obviously the defense will claim that his rulings on objections and witness testimony were wrong too. If any of them were mistaken, and serious enough to have affected the defendant's right to a fair trial, then an appellate court can reverse.
So we'll see.