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SELF-Assistance FOR NON-LAWYERS IN NON-Upper-case letter FELONY CRIMINAL, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY,
AND CIVIL Delivery CASES

What these web pages cover:
These pages deal with appeals in California non-majuscule felony criminal, juvenile malversation, and civil commitment cases.

Not covered hither:
These spider web pages do not cover dependency cases, which accept a separate Self-Help for Not-Lawyers in Dependency and Family Code Section 7800 Appeals and Writs. They do not embrace other kinds of criminal appeals, such equally death penalization appeals, misdemeanors and infractions (traffic violations), or cases in federal courtroom or some other state. They do not cover ordinary ceremonious and small-scale claims cases. Many of these types have different deadlines and rules.

Appellate Defenders, Inc. (ADI): ADI runs the organisation of courtroom-appointed lawyers on appeal in cases from San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino, Inyo, and Orangish Counties. The court tells ADI when an entreatment is filed. ADI contacts y'all for whatsoever necessary information and helps the Court of Appeal select your lawyer once you lot have provided the information. In appeals from other counties, some other district appellate project will do that.

General Data Well-nigh AN Appeal

ADI information: ADI'south "Understanding Your Entreatment - Criminal (PDF)" information form walks y'all through the usual stages of appeal. It is besides available in Spanish (PDF). It is on the ADI Forms & Samples folio under "Information for Clients Well-nigh Their Appeal" on the list of forms, which is alphabetical. It covers such topics as:

• What is an appeal?
• Who will represent me on appeal and what does Appellate Defenders, Inc., practice?
• What can I expect to happen during the appeal?
• How can I find out more well-nigh my appeal?
  

ADI Manual: The ADI Manual, though written for lawyers, provides data on a broad variety of topics that may be useful to non-lawyers trying to understand appeals.

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GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT AN APPEAL

• STARTING: How can I outset an entreatment?
• MY LAWYER: How tin I get a lawyer to do my appeal?
• DO It YOURSELF? (1) Can I represent myself? (2) Can I file my own cursory if I am represented by a lawyer?
• SUPREME COURTS: My lawyer on appeal is not going to take my example to (1) the California Supreme Court or (2) the U.s. Supreme Court on issues that I lost in the Courtroom of Appeal. What can I do on my ain?
• Another Manner TO GO - HABEAS CORPUS: I want to challenge my conviction, but I sympathise appeal is non an option. What can I practise?
• Make A FEDERAL Example OUT OF Information technology? My state entreatment is over. How can I get into federal commune court to attack my conviction?
• MORE! How tin I get additional self-help information?

one. STARTING: How tin I start an appeal?

You tin appeal from the judgment (sentence) in a criminal case or other appealable judgments or orders. You lot can appeal certain express matters later on the judgement in a guilty plea instance, too.

Filing a find of appeal: An appeal is started past filing a discover of appeal. It must exist filed in the superior court where the decision being appealed was made. The ADI Manual, chapter 2, sections 2.90 and on, discusses this process.

• ADI notice of appeal forms: ADI has Observe of Appeal forms on its website. (Look nether "Discover of Appeal Forms." The list is in alphabetical order.) The forms take instructions on when and where to file the notice of appeal. They have a place for requesting a courtroom-appointed lawyer if you cannot beget to hire a lawyer. The ADI forms cover:
  • Criminal
  • Juvenile delinquency – (Welfare and Institutions Lawmaking, section 601 or 602.)
  • Extended ceremonious commitment – Mentally Disordered Offender, Sexually Violent Predator, juvenile extended detention (Welf. & Inst. Code, section 1800 on)
  • LPS conservatorship
  • Not guilty by reason of insanity
• These ADI forms are preferred – but not required – for cases from San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino, Inyo, and Orange Counties. The forms have a identify for requesting a court-appointed lawyer if you lot cannot afford to rent a lawyer.
• Observe of appeal forms for other areas of the land: For cases that took place exterior of San Diego, Purple, Riverside, San Bernardino, Inyo, or Orange County, it is best to employ a different form from the ADI 1. Ask your trial lawyer, a superior court clerk, or the district appellate projection.
• Judicial Council detect of appeal forms: You may use a Judicial Council Class, such as CR-120 (felony criminal example) or JV-800 (delinquency instance).
• Detect of appeal not on a form: You may make up your own notice of entreatment, although that is not recommended. It must at least identify the decision y'all are appealing and be signed by y'all or your lawyer. In criminal guilty plea cases, other requirements apply – run across rule viii.304 of the California Rules of Court. If possible, include the date of the decision you are appealing, the name of the judge, case numbers for all matters you desire to include in the appeal, and other such details.

When to file a notice of appeal: CAREFUL – Strict sixty-mean solar day filing deadline! You have 60 days from the determination you lot want to appeal to file a notice of entreatment. This time limit is STRICT. (See California Rules of Courtroom, rules 8.308 for criminal cases and 8.400(d)-(g) for delinquency cases.) Different rules and deadlines often apply to misdemeanors and infractions (traffic violations), civil cases, etc.

Where to file a notice of entreatment: File a notice of appeal in the courtroom where your trial or hearing took place. Enquire the court clerk for assistance.

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two. MY LAWYER: How can I go a lawyer to do my appeal?

Hiring a lawyer: If yous tin can afford to hire a lawyer, you must do that. The State Bar of California (all California lawyers are members) has a guide called How Tin can I Find and Hire the Correct Lawyer? (external site link) Many County Bar Associations (lawyer groups) have lawyer referral services that aid you discover a lawyer with feel in these appeals.

Getting a court-appointed lawyer: If you cannot afford to rent a lawyer, you will usually be entitled to one appointed and paid by the court. Appellate Defenders, Inc. (ADI), runs the system of court-appointed lawyers in appeals from San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino, Inyo, and Orange Counties. In appeals from other counties, some other district appellate project will do that.

• What you demand to do: The court usually needs a request for appointment of a lawyer and fiscal information from you. Later on the Court of Entreatment tells ADI you take filed a discover of appeal, ADI will contact you lot and ask for the necessary data from y'all, if y'all did not provide it on the discover of entreatment.
• How a court-appointed lawyer is chosen: When ADI has the necessary information from you, ADI will help the Court of Appeal select your lawyer.
  

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3. Exercise It YOURSELF? (one) Tin can I stand for myself? (ii) Tin can I file my own brief if I am represented past a lawyer?

(ane) Representing yourself

Almost all persons going through the ADI program are represented past a lawyer. In the appeals covered by this web folio (criminal, malversation, civil commitment, etc.), a person unable to afford to hire a lawyer unremarkably has the right to a lawyer appointed by the court at public expense. For this reason, self-representation is ordinarily not an option. There is no constitutional right to stand for yourself on appeal in a criminal instance, every bit the The states Supreme Court held in Martinez 5. Court of Appeal (2000) 528 U.Southward. 152.

(two) Filing your ain briefs

If you are represented by a lawyer, your lawyer must file all briefs, motions, and almost other documents on your behalf. For the most part, you practise not have a right to file them yourself, as the California Supreme Court held in In re Barnett (2003) 31 Cal.4th 466. If you want to file a document on your own, first talk over this matter with your lawyer.

• Except: You lot accept a right to file a brief on your own, if your appointed lawyer has filed a cursory saying no arguable problems could exist found in the record. (This is called a Wende-Anders brief, or but a Wende cursory, in a criminal appeal.) Your lawyer and the court will tell you about this right and requite you a due date. You may file either a brief or a letter. It should say what issues you want the courtroom to consider. If the courtroom thinks an issue is arguable, it will order your lawyer to brief it. The ADI Manual, chapter 4, section iv.73 and on, discusses these cases.
  

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4. SUPREME COURTS: My lawyer on appeal is not going to take my instance to (1) the California Supreme Court or (2) the United States Supreme Court on issues that I lost in the Courtroom of Entreatment. What can I do on my own?

If your lawyer on appeal decides non to accept your instance whatsoever further after the Court of Appeal decision, you lot yourself volition be responsible to go along.

(1) Petition for review in the California Supreme Courtroom

If you lost your case, or part of it, in the California Court of Appeal, the next step is a petition for review in the California Supreme Court. More often than not, the California Supreme Court will review only those issues you lot raised first in the Court of Appeal. A petition for review is necessary if you desire to accept federal issues into federal court, either the U.S. Supreme Court on entreatment ("certiorari") or a federal district court on habeas corpus.

Information on petitions for review: Your appeal lawyer can provide information. Online sources of help include:

• Rules of Courtroom: See dominion 8.500 and on of the California Rules of Court, for the requirements.
• Transmission: The ADI Transmission, chapter 7, section seven.46 and on, discusses petitions for review.
• Help from the Supreme Courtroom: The California Supreme Court has guidance on "Petitioning for Review in the Supreme Court." The Supreme Courtroom clerk's office can answer questions.

Sample petition for review: Another help is ADI'due south Petition for Review Template (PDF), which is a sample petition for review. For guidance, ask your lawyer and apply the arguments made in the brief that your lawyer filed in the Courtroom of Appeal.

(ii) Certiorari petition asking for review by the United States Supreme Court

The odds of getting review (technically called writ of certiorari) granted in the U.S. Supreme Courtroom are quite small, and in the great bulk of cases a petition is not filed. Just you may file 1 if you wish.

Of import things you must know

• Limits on kinds of issues: When reviewing a country court decision, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom tin consider only problems that are federal. Generally, this means they are based on the U.South. Constitution.
• Required steps in California state courts earlier going to the U.S. Supreme Court: Yous must accept certain steps in the California courts kickoff. Usually, an upshot must be raised in the trial courtroom to be considered on appeal. On appeal, yous must clearly enhance the federal issue (a) in the Court of Appeal and (b) and so again in the California Supreme Court.
• Due date: If y'all have raised the federal issues in the land courts and you lot now want to take those upwards to the U.S. Supreme Court, the petition for certiorari must be filed no more than than 90 days after the denial of a petition for review by the California Supreme Court. (If the California Supreme Court granted review in your case, unlike deadlines employ. Check with your lawyer.)

Help

• Courtroom guide: The U.South. Supreme Court has a Guide for Prospective Indigent Petitioners for Writs of Certiorari: English language (external site PDF link).
• Manual: The ADI Manual, affiliate seven, section 7.100 and on, also discusses petitions for certiorari.
  

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five. ANOTHER WAY TO GO - HABEAS CORPUS: I want to claiming my confidence, but I understand appeal is not an choice. What can I do?

About state habeas corpus: A petition for writ of habeas corpus is often used to claiming a conviction in California courts when appealing is not an choice. Many habeas corpus proceedings are initiated by defendants interim in pro per (on their own, without a lawyer). The ADI Manual, affiliate eight, discusses California habeas corpus and other kinds of writs, which are relatively rare in ADI cases.

Habeas corpus versus appeal: Generally, habeas corpus is used when y'all need to rely on facts not presented to the trial courtroom. It is not available when the problems y'all want to heighten were, or could have been, raised on appeal. Some exceptions apply, all the same, and sometimes habeas corpus tin be used to become an appeal started if the deadline is past. Contact Appellate Defenders, Inc., if y'all lost your right to entreatment through no error of your own. Chapter 2 of the ADI Transmission, section 2.113 and on, discusses this topic.

Form required: In a criminal case without a lawyer, a habeas corpus petition filed in a California country court (either superior courtroom or an appeals court) generally must exist on the Judicial Council petition for writ of habeas corpus form, HC-001. Follow the instructions advisedly. The Judicial Council also has habeas corpus forms for mental wellness commitments: HC-002 (LPS) or HC-003 (commitments related to a criminal case: MDO, SVP, juvenile, not guilty by reason of insanity, incompetent to stand trial, prisoner transferred to state infirmary, etc.).

Lawyer: At that place is no right to have a lawyer appointed to set up a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, but if the court issues an "club to show cause" after you lot have filed your petition, then yous can ask for a lawyer. An "order to show cause" means the courtroom has found possible merit in your petition and wants a response from the government or other opposing party.

Where to file: Generally you should starting time file a habeas corpus petition in the superior court where the proceedings took place, if you are challenging those proceedings. The ADI Transmission affiliate 8, sections 8.15-viii.17, discusses this topic.

Timeliness: Although there is no set fourth dimension limit for filing a California habeas corpus petition, promptness is important. A court tin can decide not to consider your petition if you lot waited unreasonably long. Whatsoever pregnant filibuster should be explained. The ADI Manual, chapter 8, section 8.12 discusses this topic.

Guidance in preparing the petition:

• Official court rules: California Rules of Court, rules 4.550-4.552 cover habeas corpus in the superior courtroom. Rules 8.380-8.388 cover habeas corpus in the Courtroom of Appeal and California Supreme Court (except for capital cases). Rule viii.380 specifically deals with petitions filed in pro per (without a lawyer) in the Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court.
• Manual: In the ADI Manual, affiliate 8, Appendix A, sections eight.84 and on have instructions. Section 8.19 and on of the ADI Manual discusses these petitions, too. The Manual is written for lawyers. Although most of the instructions utilise to petitions filed past prisoners, too, you must follow the instructions in the California Rules of Court or on one of the Judicial Council forms mentioned to a higher place (such as HC-001) when in that location is a departure. The rules for lawyer and pro per petitions are somewhat different.
  

Afterward the petition: The ADI Manual affiliate 8, sections 8.28 and on draw what happens after a habeas corpus petition is filed in the Court of Appeal. Proceedings in a superior court habeas case are like, merely not identical. Consult rules 4.550-4.552 and come across sections 8.45-8.48 of the ADI Transmission.

What if my petition in the superior court is denied? If your petition is denied in the superior court, you then tin file a new habeas corpus petition (non an appeal) with the same issues in the Court of Entreatment. If that is unsuccessful you may file a petition for review (or another habeas corpus petition) in the California Supreme Court. Consult with your lawyer or Appellate Defenders, Inc., when in doubt what to file. The ADI Manual affiliate 8, sections 8.49-viii.52, discusses the review process.

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• Possible risks: Before filing a petition for habeas corpus, you lot should consider that a review of trial court proceedings carries a run a risk. If in that location were any errors in your favor in the trial courtroom, they might exist noticed and corrected – then that you lot end up worse off than when you started. Or, if yous successfully attack your guilty plea, you may and so lose the benefits gained by the plea bargain. (See the ADI Manual chapter iv, section 4.91 and on, for more particular on when this might happen.) Y'all should ask for guidance from your trial or appellate lawyer.
• Ane petition per case: Another thing to be careful well-nigh – nether California law y'all are generally allowed only ane habeas corpus petition to challenge a confidence for a detail instance. That is called the "successive petitions dominion." So you should raise all issues yous want to raise in your first petition. A petition in the Court of Appeal, simply asking for review of the superior court'southward denial of a habeas corpus petition, does not count every bit a "second" or "successive" petition. (Encounter ADI Manual, chapter 8, section viii.ten.)

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half-dozen. MAKE A FEDERAL Case OUT OF Information technology? My land entreatment is over. How tin can I become into federal district courtroom to attack my conviction?

Manual: The ADI Manual, chapter nine, deals with federal habeas corpus.

Federal habeas corpus: If yous are attacking a criminal conviction and take been unsuccessful in both the Courtroom of Entreatment and the California Supreme Courtroom, you may decide to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the federal district court where your conviction occurred. Remember that, when reviewing a state conviction, a federal court can consider only issues that are federal – more often than not, this means those based on the U.Southward. Constitution.

Required steps in California state courts before going to federal court: Yous must take certain steps in the California courts first. You lot or your lawyer must clearly raise the federal issue (a) in the California Courtroom of Appeal and (b) and so again in the California Supreme Court before it can be brought to federal court.

Course for petition: If you lot want to bring federal claims from your appeal and/or country habeas proceedings into federal court, ADI has links to the diverse California federal district court habeas corpus forms and instructions for filing a petition. They are on the ADI website Forms & Samples page near the bottom of the web page, nether "Ninth Circuit."

• Convictions from Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties: Apply the Key Commune class
• Convictions from Inyo County: Use the Eastern District course.
• Convictions from San Diego and Purple Counties: Apply the Southern Commune grade.

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• Strict due appointment: In that location by and large is a STRICT time limit for filing a habeas corpus petition attacking a state judgment in federal court. From the 24-hour interval your petition for review in the California Supreme Court is denied, you take one year and xc days to file a habeas corpus petition in federal court. (28 U.s.C. 2244(d)(1).) If the California Supreme Court granted the petition for review, ask your attorney or a Supreme Court clerk for the due date. Chapter ix of the ADI Manual, sections 9.4 and on, deal with this time limit and a few exceptions to information technology.
• I federal petition per case: Federal police force tends to be even stricter than California constabulary most "successive petitions." With few exceptions, it allows only one habeas corpus petition in federal court to challenge a particular confidence. And then you should raise all issues you want to raise in your first federal petition. (See ADI Manual, chapter nine, section ix.79 and on.)
  

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7. More than! How can I become boosted self-help information?

Official rules and forms

• California Rules of Court, Championship 8, deals with appeals.
• Judicial Council forms.

Clerks of the court: Clerk'south offices can be very helpful. Courtroom of Entreatment and Supreme Court clerks can provide information about procedures in those courts. Superior court clerks can help you with notices of appeal and records.

Prison Law Role: Information about prison house weather and filing country and federal habeas corpus petitions tin can be plant in the Prisoner's Handbook and other resources published past the Prison house Police force Office. These are available in many prison law libraries. The Prison Law Role also has a website.

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