It was heartening to read the opinions in the 12 criminal appeals decided by the Court of Appeals on Nov. 21, at least nine of which had as their jurisdictional predicate a grant of leave by a judge of the Court of Appeals.
In all of 2022, 31 criminal appeals were decided by the court, 20 of them by a grant of leave by one of its judges. See “2022 Annual Report of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals,” Appendix 5.

New York Court of Appeals building in Albany. Photo: Ryland West/ALM
