There was what Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman characterized as a “very dramatic increase” last year in the number of criminal appeals accepted by New York’s top court.
According to the just-released annual report of the Court of Appeals, judges granted 4.9 percent of the leave requests they received in criminal cases in 2010, up from 3.4 percent in 2009 and only 2 percent in 2008.
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