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Where I practice you can do that with the courts file if it's not sealed, but a transcript is only made if someone requests it and it is retained by the court reporter, not as a part of the file. The transcript would only got into the file if the judge presiding over the trial ordered the reporter to make a transcript for the Court's use. I've never heard of them doing this for the entire trial, only some part that the judge wanted to mull over to make a ruling.Here is how it works, at least in my Province in Canada.
I attend Prothonotary and search for file on comp system. Fill out slip and request file. If I am solicitor of record, I can view free. If not, costs $8 bucks.
I then get the full file and can sit in a room and read everything. I can make copies at 75 cents per page. (Now I just take pics with my iPhone. LOL)
That's it. Unless the file is sealed, or certain docs within are, that would be all it would take for me to get the transcript if the freak was charged here.
Question is, can one do the same in Lancaster County, PA?
I'm honestly not sure what they are allowed to charge here if, as in Nick's case, it is already prepared and they are just printing a copy, but I suspect they want the full statutory rate as if they were making it fresh from the notes($2.60/page IIRC for criminal maters). Court reporters are treated strangely in my jurisdiction and are essentially independent contractors who get paid directly by the parties to make transcripts on top of some smaller daily rate by the court to take the original stenography. I kind of forget that the way they do it here is kind of unusual beause it's what I deal with every day.
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looks like they are a lot cheaper in Pa and can only charge up to 25 cents a page to non-parties for photo copies of transcripts that were already made.
" (3) The cost charged to the public for a copy of a transcript that has been filed of record shall not exceed $0.25 per page."
So, if were right that it's between 201 and 400 pages then the most it could cost is $100.
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