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Is an appeal worth pursuing?

Appellate grounds analysis, deadline research, and viability factors for challenging your conviction.

An appellate attorney viability consultation typically costs well over a thousand dollars. $297 provides the same analysis using published appellate standards and success rates, the same framework an appellate attorney uses to assess whether your case has grounds.

What this costs

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$297Appeal Viability Assessment, delivered in Under 60 seconds.

Some legal-services sites publish their price openly. Some don't. Here's where each one lands today.

Every price on this site is the price. No “starting at.” No per-minute meter. No bait.

What You Get

  • Viability assessment (STRONG / MODERATE / WEAK / NOT VIABLE)
  • Deadline status, whether you are still within the filing window
  • Grounds analysis with published success rates by issue type
  • Preservation issues, whether the issues were properly objected to at trial
  • Process overview and estimated costs
  • Questions for an appellate attorney

Sample insight from a real report:

"The most common reason appeals fail is that the issue was not 'preserved', meaning the attorney did not object at trial. Without a contemporaneous objection on the record, most appellate courts will not review the issue, regardless of how strong the argument is."

What you're afraid of

Before you buy, here's what every defendant worries about.

Every citation in your report links back to a real CourtListener URL or a real state statute page. Your attorney can verify everything in under five minutes. We sit alongside your attorney — we don't replace them.

  • What if I take the wrong plea — or the wrong sentence?

    Most defendants take the first plea offered. We pull the comparable cases in your district and your judge's prior rulings, so you can see what the floor actually is before deciding.

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  • What if my attorney isn't actually listening — or preparing?

    Most defendants leave their attorney's office with more questions than they came in with. Not because attorneys are bad — the meeting is short and you didn't know what to ask. We hand you the questions, scored against your charge.

    Take the free Defense Score

  • I don't even know what I don't know.

    The hardest part of a criminal case is not knowing which questions matter. The Intelligence Brief pulls the most-cited opinions in your district + your charge, mapped to your judge's prior rulings, and surfaces the five questions that move the needle in front of this prosecutor.

    See what an Intelligence Brief covers

  • What if I bring my attorney a number they dismiss?

    If you bring your attorney a number they can't trace to a source, the conversation is over. Every number in our report is a hyperlink. Your attorney clicks, verifies, and the conversation continues.

    View a sample report

We're not here to replace your attorney. We're here to make sure you walk into their office knowing the right questions to ask.

What you're paying for is the time

Skip the reading. We already did it.

Defendants are already doing this work themselves — on r/legaladvice / r/Ask_Lawyers / Avvo Q&A, in Google searches, in the long thread of “what happens if I plead X” questions every public legal-help surface carries. The data is public. The reading is the work.

  • Your charging document + cited statutes: every statute referenced, every sub-section, every element of the offense, every cross-reference.

  • CourtListener opinion bulk (source): every published opinion in your district touching the issue this report covers.

  • r/legaladvice + Avvo Q&A (source): thousands of plain-language threads where defendants describe the same prep work this report condenses.

Public-data intel package, organized for your charge — for $297.

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Public corpora linked above; every claim in the delivered report resolves to a public-record URL.

What we actually use

Every citation in your Appeal Viability Assessment resolves to one of these public corpora. Click any source to land on the maintainer's site and verify it exists.

  • CourtListener (opens in new tab)Free Law Project (501(c)(3) nonprofit)

    Every published federal and state court opinion, plus the dockets and citation links between them.

    Coverage: Decades of opinions across federal courts and most state appellate courts. Trial-court orders depend on whether each court publishes online.

  • Official state statute sites (opens in new tab)Each state's legislature (e.g. Online Sunshine for Florida)

    Current statute text for every state — the words of the law as the legislature enacted them.

    Coverage: Current and recent statutes. Historical versions vary by state. Statute text is authoritative; how courts apply it lives in the opinion record.

These are the public corpora your attorney can also pull. The work we charge for is the reading and the organizing — not access to the data.

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This report provides legal INFORMATION, not legal ADVICE. Decisions about how to use this information stay with you.