Letters to the Editor: There's a court reporter shortage. Switch to recordings, says a lawyer
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— To the editor: I worked in Los Angeles as an attorney for 30 years, mostly downtown in the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. Sometime during that period, that court decided to use tape recorders instead of court reporters at hearings. ("No transcript, no appeal: California courts face 'crisis' over lack of records," April 12) Visualizing blank or garbled recordings being the only evidence of what transpired at a hearing, I was nervous. I forget for how long the hearings were taped, but it was soon...
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