HOW DO I SUBPOENA SENTENCING TRANSCRIPTS WITH OUT A LAWER OR COURT ORDER?

You would order a transcript from the official court reporter for the court where the sentencing was held. You need the name of the case, the indictment (or docket) number, and the date of the proceeding.





Transcripts are expensive, so unless someone else has ordered it, you will probably have to pay a deposit up front. The court reporter can give you all that information. Call the court clerk for information about how to contact the court reporter.HOW DO I SUBPOENA SENTENCING TRANSCRIPTS WITH OUT A LAWER OR COURT ORDER?
Late 70's? You may have to go down to the courthouse and view this on microfilm--- BUT I must warn you, if this is a criminal case--- those transcripts may have ';disappeared';.


I know this because this happens pretty frequently with older cases. Feel free to email me.


Very good luck to you ..

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HOW DO I SUBPOENA SENTENCING TRANSCRIPTS WITH OUT A LAWER OR COURT ORDER?
I am a court reporter working in a felony courtroom.





Lexie is right. You need to find out who the court reporter was in your case. You can do that by calling the court clerk's office of the courthouse you appeared in. They will look up the court reporter's name on the minutes and tell you how to contact him or her. You need to give the case number, the name of the defendant and most importantly the date you're asking to be transcribed.





Transcripts can be expensive. They are billed by the page. In my courtroom, a straight sentencing transcript averages about 10 pages. It can be longer if victims spoke at the sentencing or it was a complicated case. The longer the proceeding, the more it will cost.





If the case is a felony, the sentencing transcript should have already been prepared in which case it shouldn't cost you more than a few dollars because the reporter simply has to hit the print button and print another copy. If the transcript has not previously been prepared you will be charged the fee for an original transcript, which can be around $3.00 per page. Some reporters require the money to be paid first before they will begin working on the transcript.





Usually when people contact me for sentencing transcripts and they've already been prepared, I will not charge them for the transcript if they will come and pick it up at the courthouse so I don't have to make a trip to the post office.





If you appeared in a court that didn't have a court reporter but instead had a tape recorder, which many courts are going to now, I can't tell you what to expect as far as cost, but the procedure to find the person to prepare your transcript would be the same.
I don't think you need to ';subpoena'; the transcripts.





Sounds like you should make a ';public records request'; with the court or clerk of court or whomever holds these records.
I don't think you can . . .
You subpoena witnesses. Sentencing transcripts require a records request