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Filing a Notice of Appeal of Final Judgment in a
Criminal Case in CM/ECF
Filing a Notice of Appeal in CM/ECF involves selecting the type of document you are
filing, entering the case number, selecting the party who is filing the document,
selecting the pdf document, modifying the docket text, and accepting the final docket
text.
STEP 1 After you have logged in to CM/ECF, click on Criminal on the ECF Main Menu.
STEP 2 The system will display the Criminal Events screen.
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Click on Appeal Documents in the Other Filings section.
STEP 3 The system will next display the Case Number screen for you to enter the
case in which the document is to be filed.
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The number of the last case accessed will be displayed. If this is the correct
case, just click Next. If it is not, enter the correct case number and then click
Next.
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STEP 4 If there is more than one defendant in the case, the system will display a
screen to select the defendant(s) to which this document relates.
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This is the defendant whom the document is “as to,” which may or may not be
the same as the filer. (If the document is being filed by the government, select
the defendant(s) to whom the filing applies.) Your selection on this screen
determines whose docket sheet the document will appear on.
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Click in the check box for the appropriate defendant. Click Next.
STEP 5 The system will display the Appeal Documents screen, for you to select
the type of document being filed.
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Click the down-arrow at the right of the highlighted area, and the system will
display a drop-down list.
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Select Notice of Appeal - Final Judgment by clicking on it, then click Next.
STEP 6 The system will then display the pdf document screen.
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To associate a pdf file with this entry, you can either enter the path and filename
of the document with the .pdf extension, if you know it, in the Filename field, or
you can