appellant:
(plural: ‘appellants‘)
an appellant whose appeal has been rejected, Kerrie Aley of Long Beach
a person who appeals to (requests) a higher court of law or a tribunal to change the decision or ruling of a lower court, i.e. if a person, an accused of a crime, is not satisfied with the judgement (decision) of a court, he/she can submit an appeal (request) to a higher court, called ‘appellate court’, to take up his/her case and judge again,
In a legal case, an accused or suspect becomes a ‘defendant’ when the case is filed in a court of law, and, after trial, if the ‘defendant’ is not satisfied with the way the case has been tried or with the sentence (punishment) the judge has declared, he/she can appeal to a higher court and then the defendant becomes an appellant.
The constitution guarantees that any appeal from any appellant must be accepted by the appeal court; however, it is the appellant duty of the appellant to prove that there has been some misjudgement done in his/her case and must be able to convince the jury too.
