Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1990
ISSN
0091-4169
Publisher
Northwestern University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
The contemporary criminal justice system is guided, in large part, from the top down. A great deal of the force that drives the "terrible engine" of the criminal law is supplied by courts that consider cases on review after a defendant has been convicted.
Recommended Citation
David Rossman,
'Were There No Appeal': The History of Review in American Criminal Courts
,
in
81
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
501
(1990).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1609
