Franklin v. Schwartz

No reason appears to doubt respondent’s assertion that despite an extensive search of the District Attorney’s case files relating to the three indictment numbers specified in petitioner’s requests, she was unable to locate the requested minutes of a 1982 plea taken by a certain witness at petitioner’s trial. Indeed, it appears from the parties’ extensive correspondence that respondent at all times endeavored to comply with petitioner’s requests in accordance with this Court’s prior order—she ordered and reviewed various case files in an attempt to locate the requested plea minutes; she…