It is sometimes heard in the context of litigants that he or she will go all the way and take the case to the Supreme Court. As a general rule, most appeals go to the Indiana Court of Appeals. Few cases go straight to the Indiana Supreme Court; it decides which cases to take.
There are four cases that have the direct right to appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court.1 The first is criminal appeals in which the sentence of death or life imprisonment without parole is imposed. The second are cases in which an Indiana trial court declares a state ... Read More