How is a Cout of Appeal different from a District Court?

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Answer 1

a court of appeals hears only appeals, maybe some appeals heard from the same district court.

Answer 2

One's a "Cout" and one's a "Court" ?

To be serious, a District Court is a "Court of first instance". That means that a trial is held there to begin with.

If one party or the other believes that there were mistakes of law made in the trial, then he can appeal. The Appeals court will review the record of the trial, listen to arguments, and either uphold the verdict, overturn it, or send it back for review.

Courts of Appeal do NOT retry the FACTS of a case - they only rule on LEGAL issues. So if your argument was "It wasn't me" and the jury said yes it was, that's not appealable. If the Judge allowed in some evidence that you think should have been excluded, that's a question of law, and can be appealed.

Richard