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.