Of 49 pro se petitions filed in 2013, the grant rate was 0.0 percent. It may be that every single one of them lacked merit. But we wonder.
Judges have in the past decade been warning about the vast increase in pro se parties (recently also known as “self-represented parties”) in the trial and intermediate appellate courts in Connecticut and elsewhere. Much ink has been spilled on this intractable issue. We wish to publicize an inevitable by-product of this issue: pro se parties saying, “I’m going to take my case to the Supreme Court.”
