Legal Opinion
Roberts v. LaVallee
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 23, 1967No. 193 MPublishedCited by 391 opinions
1Per curiam
Petitioner is an indigent. He was charged with robbery, larceny, and assault in New York. When his case *41was called for trial, petitioner asked that the court furnish him, at state expense, with the minutes of a prior preliminary hearing, at which the major state witnesses had testified. A New York statute provided that a transcript of the hearing would be furnished “on payment of . . . fees at the rate of five cents for every hundred words.” N. Y. Code Crim. Proc. § 206. The trial court denied the request for a free transcript.
Petitioner was convicted of the crimes charged and sentenced to a…
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