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.
Reynolds is a village in Mercer and Rock Island Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 508 at the 2000 census. Only a small portion on the south side is in Mercer County. The village was founded in 1876.