The legal right that a convicted defendant possesses that allows him or her to pursue an appeal of a state criminal verdict

A) requires a defendant to hire his or her own appellate counsel and where a defendant is too poor to afford an appellate counsel, the defendant must write his or her own appellate brief.
B) is mandated from a reading of British constitutional law and was inherited by the states of the United States.
C) comes from the guarantee of due process contained in the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) is based on the state constitution and/or state law and is neither dependent on nor derived from the United States Constitution.
E) none of the above is a correct response.


D

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