South Florida Criminal Appeals Lawyer

If you have filed an appeal or are thinking about filing an appeal, you may be wondering what will happen to you during the appeal process.  If jail or prison was part of your sentence, you may be eligible to receive bail pending your appeal, rather than staying in jail while your appeal is being filed.  The appellate process can take anywhere from 9 months to two years, and most defendants would rather spend this time outside of jail.    

Depending on the offense for which you were sentenced and the type of sentence given, you may or may not be able to stay out in bail during the appellate process.  Serious offenses involving violence and sexual misconduct will disqualify you from bail pending appeal.   If you were sentenced to less than 10 years in jail and your crime was not violent or sexual in nature, you may be eligible for bail pending appeal, otherwise you will have to stay in custody while the appeal is pending.  No one wants to stay in prison unnecessarily, and in some cases the length of the jail sentence may be equal to the time it might take for the appeal to clear, which means you could spend extra time in jail. 

South Florida criminal appeal lawyer Sean Sweeney knows how valuable your freedom is.  If you are trying to overturn a sentence because it was given to you in error or by mistake, the last thing you want to do is sit in jail while you wait for the matter to be resolved.  Doing so could mean that you will be imprisoned for 9 months and then be given the news that your appeal cleared and your sentence is being dismissed.  Can you imagine having wasted that much of your life?  When you choose a South Florida Criminal Appeals Lawyer Sean Sweeney, he will work hard to make sure you enjoy your freedom while you wait for the resolution of your appeal. 

To find out if you can be granted bail pending appeal, contact a South Florida Appellate Attorney at The Sweeney Law Group today!