Practicing in the Appellate Courts is for the purpose of reviewing trial court judgments to correct of errors committed by the trial court, development of the law, achieve a uniform approach across courts, and the pursuit of justice, more generally. Appellate courts are not a forum to make a new case, but instead they determine if the rulings and judgment of the court below were made correctly.
The historic Town of Westcliffe is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of Custer County, Colorado, United States. At the U.S. Census 2000, the population was 417.