Title
Appellate Procedure: Payment for Partially Prepared Reporters’ Transcripts (Action Required)
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Summary
The Appellate Advisory Committee recommends amending the rules regarding the preparation of reporters’ transcripts in misdemeanor and infraction appeals to add language providing for payment of court reporters for portions of transcripts prepared at the point appeals are abandoned or dismissed out of funds deposited by appellants.
Recommendation
The Appellate Advisory Committee recommends that the Judicial Council, effective January 1, 2018, amend California Rules of Court, rules 8.866 and 8.919, to provide that if the appellant in a misdemeanor or infraction appeal deposited funds with the court for a reporter’s transcript and the appeal is abandoned or dismissed, the clerk will pay the court reporter out of these deposited funds for any portion of the transcript that was completed before the abandonment or dismissal of the appeal and will refund any excess deposit to the appellant.