In Re State of Ala.

The State of Alabama filed this petition for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Sibley G. Reynolds to grant its motion to compel Judge Reynolds’s official court reporter, Deborah Sharman, to complete the transcript of Jason Murphy’s second capital-murder trial. In October 2003, Murphy was indicted for two counts of capital murder. In August 2006, Murphy’s first trial ended in a mistrial. His second trial ended in a mistrial in September 2007. The State contacted Sharman and requested that a transcript of the second trial be completed before Murphy’s third trial. (It asserts that it needs a…