Know where a criminal appeal is going before you write it.
The record already knows whether a criminal appeal will turn. Appellate Analytics reads it and tells you, reversal or affirmance, before a word of the brief is written. Across 175 decided appeals, it has called the direction right 96% of the time. Nobody else in criminal appellate work has anything like it.
Know whether a criminal appeal will likely win before you spend a year to find out.
Most criminal appeals are lost because the wrong issues get litigated. Before now, picking the right one has come down to a few experienced lawyers and their gut feelings, and the gut is not always right and never comes with an explanation.
Appellate Analytics does that job and shows its work. You feed it the record, and it tells you which way the case is going and which issues are actually worth briefing. You stop guessing, and you stop throwing money into issues that never had a chance of reversal.
It reads the whole record
The actual transcripts, the lower court rulings, and history the appellate court will see. If it is in the record, this tool will read it.
It tells you the likely direction, and why
Reverse or affirm, and which issues carry real weight versus the ones that only sound good in a legal consult. A straight answer, not a maybe.
You make the call
Take the case, refer the case, or walk away, and know why. No more hundred-hour briefs on cases the record was never going to win.
If a criminal appeal decision is on your desk, this is for you.
Criminal defense firms
Weighing whether to take an appeal, and which issues to run. Commit the firm's hours where they can actually win.
Solo appellate attorneys
No partner down the hall to gut-check a close call. Get a second read that has been right 96% of the time.
Trial lawyers
Handed an appeal and not sure it is worth taking up. Know before you file, not a year into the brief.
Families deciding
Being asked to fund an appeal and wanting a straight answer on the odds before the money goes out.
A straight read on the case, not a maybe.
We ran it on 175+ decided criminal appeals. It called the outcome, reversed or affirmed, correctly 96% of the time. No hedging, no asterisk. That number is the entire pitch, and it holds.
Most appeals lose, so guessing “it will affirm” is easy. The hard part is the opposite: catching the rare case that will actually reverse, and spotting the sure loser before anyone spends a year on it. That is what the 96% measures, and it is the part that matters.
Dr. Gregory Salmon
He started out defending people who had nobody else. Representing people for decades, and a few hundred appeals later, he knew something he could not yet prove: you can tell early which cases are going to win. The strong ones read differently. Most lawyers feel it and shrug. He wanted to know if it was real.
So he spent years proving it, earned a doctorate doing it, and built the tool that came out the other side. What was instinct is now a system, and the system is right 96% of the time.
A trial lawyer who thinks like a scientist, and a scientist who has actually argued criminal appeals.