Does a criminal defendant have a right to raise issues in a piecemeal appeal?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rosel, G048976 (Cal. App. 2014):
A criminal defendant may not raise issues in piecemeal appeals, when an issue could have been raised in the first appeal. (People v. Senior (1995) 33 Cal.App.4th 531, 536-537.) Here, defendant has forfeited his right to raise the issue of a lack of substantial evidence by not raising it in his first appeal.
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