Davis v. Brierley

OPINION OF THE COURT

This is an action under the Civil Rights Act against several officers of the State Correctional Institution at Philadelphia for allegedly depriving appellant of his state trial transcript for a period of several months. Appellant contends he needed the transcript in order to file a Pennsylvania Post-Conviction Hearing Act petition challenging his guilty plea. At the time he filed the post-conviction petition, subsequently denied, appellant claims he did not have the trial transcript. The transcript was made available to appellant prior to the evidentiary hearing on the…