2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 20. Courts
§20-106.4a. Transcripts - Access to copies - Costs.

20 OK Stat § 20-106.4a (2016) What's This?

A transcript of the court reporter's notes, upon request and for the use of an indigent defendant or a district attorney, may not be charged to the court fund unless, before its preparation, the cost to be incurred was authorized by written judicial order.

When a judge authorizes or orders a transcript of the court reporter's notes of any proceeding to be prepared at the expense of the court fund, or where a prosecuting attorney orders such a transcript at public or court fund expense and the accused as an indigent is constitutionally entitled to a free copy of the transcript, a reporter shall prepare an original and two copies of the transcript so ordered and file it with the clerk of the trial court. The court reporter shall immediately notify the district attorney and the defendant of the date the transcript was filed. The district attorney and the defendant shall have access to the copies of the transcript on such terms as the trial court may impose. The chief judge may prescribe rules for access to or disposition of the copies of the transcript.

Added by Laws 1976, c. 269, § 5, emerg. eff. June 15, 1976. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 112, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.

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