1. The court will not issue a writ of certiorari unless at least four of the nine justices approve of it.

2. Whether the Court will issue a writ of certiorari is entirely within its discretion.

3. Each year, litigants in hundreds of cases petition the Supreme Court seeking a “writ of certiorari” — agreement of the court to hear an appeal from a lower court.

4. The first is to help review the more than 7,000 petitions for Supreme Court review, officially called petitions for a “writ of certiorari,” that the Court receives each year.

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5. The Supreme Court, by means of a writ of certiorari, may call up a case from a district court for review.

6. Writ of certiorari - An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal. (See certiorari in Foreign Words Glossary.

7. In most cases, the losing party must petition the Court through a writ of certiorari to hear the case.

8. The majority of the justices participate in what is called the “cert pool,” where cert is short for writ of certiorari.

9. In the federal courts, except in a few very limited circumstances, appeals to the United States Supreme Court are discretionary, by writ of certiorari .

10. Lewis' attorney, James E. Rocap, III, filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari and Application for Stay with the United States Supreme Court, but the Court declined to review the case.

11. Const. art. III, sec. 2, cl. 2. In most cases, the losing party must petition the Court through a writ of certiorari to hear the case.

12. Similarly, in the federal courts, except in a few very limited circumstances, appeals to the United States Supreme Court are discretionary, by writ of certiorari.

13. For the above reasons, I support the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari.