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.
DeWitt is a city in Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,702 at the 2000 census. The city is located within DeWitt Township, though it is politically independent. It is just north of Interstate 69, and just west of US 127, about 10 miles north of downtown Lansing.