Felony defendants far less successful in SCOW than in other state supreme courts

Today’s edition of SCOWstats follows up on a forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review article, State Criminal Appeals Revealed, which used a new dataset from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center on State Courts to examine state supreme court decisions in felony appeals. The article did not include Wisconsin cases, so SCOWstats supplies the missing data. Have a look. You might find a surprise or two!