How to receive court transcripts? HELP!?

I am the daughter of a homicide victim from 20 years ago. I live in the bay area in California. I have the court reporters name, but can't find her anywhere. I think that she has probably retired by now. I called the DA's office but they said the transcript is probably in storage and couldn't help me. You would think they would keep transcripts of this nature for a long while. Can anyone help me find the transcripts? The county of commitment was San Francisco. PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks!How to receive court transcripts? HELP!?
Trial transcripts are normally used only in appeals. Since this was a homicide, it was likely appealed, which is why the D.A. likely had transcripts. The clerk does not keep transcripts. The appeals were likely concluded more than ten years ago, unless it was a death penalty case. After 20 years, it may be very difficult to find transcripts in county storage. They may not even exist, or they may have been sent to another authority, like the state attorney general, if the case made it to federal court during appeals, which many do. Once all the appeals have been concluded, they may or may not have included the transcripts in the boxes sent over to the state archives.





You can see what you can find through the clerk of the federal district court in your federal district, to see if it made it that far. From the filings, you can see who represented the state at the federal level. If it's the attorney general, you might then be able to find out if transcripts were preserved when they close out cases to the archives. I'm betting they don't, except for the excerpts that were used as exhibits.





It is also barely possible that the attorney or firm that handled the last appeals might have a transcript. Files get passed up the line from attorney to attorney as the appeal progresses and the attorney appointments change. The name will be on the last court papers in the appeals.





Your state no doubt has an association of court reporters. They might be able to tell you if there's a system for preserving the work of retired reporters. The paper transcript won't be preserved, likely just the shorthand and recordings, if at all. If so, it will be very expensive to produce a transcript.





I'd first find out who manages the county's storage and see just how bad it might be or even if they think they have them.How to receive court transcripts? HELP!?
Go to the courthouse. See the clerk of the court. Ask to see the file. You can see anything in the court file. That usually includes transcripts. You can also arrange to copy anything in the court file, although the clerk will charge a fee.
20 years is a long time. Some States allow the court reporter to sell copies of transcripts. Ohio was like this. Years ago, they were $2 per page. All you can do is ask if you can search the records. Some keep them on micro-fish transparencies.