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Chicago Appeals Lawyer Robert M. Stephenson represents clients throughout the state of Illinois on direct appeal from their convictions. Direct appeals are challenges in the appellate or Supreme Court to the merits of the underlying conviction.

No new evidence may be presented on direct appeal, and issues not preserved by your trial attorney must meet the procedural hurdles of waiver/forfeiture, or be recast as an ineffective assistance of counsel argument.
Chicago Appeals Lawyer Robert Stephenson has obtained reversals and remands of murder convictions in the Illinois Supreme and Appellate courts. He has worked in the area of direct criminal appeals for the last ten years. Appeals are fundamentally distinct from trial practice, and you are advised to retain separte appellate counsel.

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