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Britt v. North Carolina, 404 U.S. 226 (1971)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Britt v. North Carolina, 404 U.S. 226 (1971)
Britt v. North Carolina No. 70-5041 Argued October 14, 1971 Decided December 13, 1971 404 U.S. 226
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA
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Petitioner was convicted of murder a month after his previous trial had ended with a hung jury. Both trials took place in a small town before the same judge and with the same counsel and court reporter, who (as was conceded) was well known to defense counsel and other local lawyers and would have read back his notes to defense counsel before the second trial had he been asked to do so. Between the two trials petitioner, alleging indigency, filed a motion for a free transcript, which the trial court denied. The appellate court affirmed the conviction, holding that an adequate alternative to the transcript was available.
Held: In the narrow circumstances of this case, a transcript was not needed for petitioner’ defense. Pp. 227-230.
8 N.C.App. 262, 174 S.E.2d 69, affirmed.
MARSHALL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and STEWART and WHITE, JJ. joined. BLACKMUN, J., filed a statement concurring in the result, post, p. 230. DOUGLAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which BRENNAN, J., joined, post, p. 230.
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