Meeting Agenda RULE 3. The clerk of the trial court shall cause mail or send by third-party commercial carrier a copy of the notice of appeal to be mailed to the clerk of the supreme court and to counsel of record for each party other than the appellant, or, if a party is not represented by counsel, to the party's last known address. In criminal cases, habeas corpus proceedings, or post-conviction proceedings, the clerk shall also mail send a copy of the docket entries to the clerk of the supreme court. The clerk shall note on each copy mailed sent the date on which the notice of appeal was filed. Failure of the clerk to cause send the notice to be mailed does not affect the validity of the appeal.
Service is sufficient notwithstanding the death of a party or the party's counsel.
The clerk shall note in the docket the names of the parties to whom copies are mailed sent , with and the date of mailing they were sent . The title of the action is not to be changed in consequence of the appeal. The federal rules governing appeal as of right are adopted for general use because the appeals by permission contemplated by federal practice are absent from our appellate structure. Rule 3, FRAppP, is substantially adopted in this rule. Rule 3 is patterned after Rule 3, Fed.