Even if the recently proposed amendments to Rule 1925(b) are approved, the state court regulation governing appellate brief parameters is still likely to cause practitioners headaches, state Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman told a group of Philadelphia lawyers and judges last week.
Newman also indicated that she sympathizes with the plight of criminal defense attorneys who feel they owe it to their clients to raise a wide range of issues on appeal, even if they recognize that doing so might lead to an adverse decision from an appellate panel.
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