Claims that errors were made during jury selection are among the most common of all grounds for criminal appeals.
Nearly 55 percent of all criminal appeals now involve drug offenses, the report said, as against 30 percent in 1980.
The House agreed not to consider further Scottish criminal appeals.
There is no right to a criminal appeal.
While the new policy clearly applies to civil cases, it may or may not apply to criminal appeals.
In criminal appeals, Republican and Democratic appointees do not differ.
The issue of criminal appeals was not mentioned in the House debates.
The bride, 29, is an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, working on criminal appeals.
There he was appointed as the official reporter for the court of criminal appeals February 24, 1905.
This effort led to the establishment, in 1907, of the court of criminal appeal.