None of the three judges on the appellate panel has ever conducted a trial.

The appellate panel sent the case back to the administrative law court.

But an appellate panel freed him in 1996, noting that he had been tried twice for the same crime.

The lower court judge agreed but a majority of an appellate panel did not.

But some of what the appellate panel considered seems difficult to put right.

At least two members of the appellate panel echoed those arguments.

The appellate panel handed down its decision in the case last month.

A wise appellate panel would not make the same error.

The appellate panel usually rules about three months after oral arguments.

An appellate panel is scheduled to hear arguments in April.