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§ 450.90 Appeal to court of appeals from order of intermediate appellate
           court; in what cases authorized.
  1.  Provided  that  a  certificate  granting leave to appeal is issued
pursuant to section  460.20,  an  appeal  may,  except  as  provided  in
subdivision  two,  be  taken  to  the  court  of  appeals  by either the
defendant or the people from any adverse or partially adverse  order  of
an  intermediate  appellate  court  entered upon an appeal taken to such
intermediate appellate court pursuant  to  section  450.10,  450.15,  or
450.20,  or  from  an order granting or denying a motion to set aside an
order of an intermediate appellate court on the  ground  of  ineffective
assistance  or  wrongful  deprivation of appellate counsel, or by either
the defendant or the people from any adverse or partially adverse  order
of  an intermediate appellate court entered upon an appeal taken to such
intermediate appellate court from an order entered pursuant  to  section
440.46  or  section  440.47 of this chapter. An order of an intermediate
appellate court is adverse to the party who was the  appellant  in  such
court when it affirms the judgment, sentence or order appealed from, and
is  adverse  to  the  party who was the respondent in such court when it
reverses the judgment, sentence or order  appealed  from.  An  appellate
court  order  which  modifies  a  judgment  or  order  appealed  from is
partially adverse to each party.
  2. An appeal to the court of appeals from an order of an  intermediate
appellate  court reversing or modifying a judgment, sentence or order of
a criminal court may be taken only if:

(a) The court of appeals determines that the intermediate appellate court's determination of reversal or modification was on the law alone or upon the law and such facts which, but for the determination of law, would not have led to reversal or modification; or

(b) The appeal is based upon a contention that corrective action, as that term is defined in section 470.10, taken or directed by the intermediate appellate court was illegal.