In a lengthy written appeal for action he said:

-People are dying before lengthy appeals can be heard.

The oil giant spent decades fighting lengthy appeals that bled the victims dry in legal costs.

And to meet Federal constitutional standards, lengthy appeals are nearly inevitable.

Officials attribute the roughly 14 percent deportation rate to lengthy appeals and other legal reviews.

Some convicted trafficking offenders continued to be granted bail pending their lengthy appeals.

After lengthy appeals, his conviction was later overturned, due to prosecutorial misconduct, in 1996.

Life without parole also short-circuits lengthy appeals over a death sentence.

After lengthy appeals he served 60 days in jail in 1981.

Connecticut and New Jersey have death penalties, but because of lengthy appeals, no criminal has been executed in either for years.