(a) Each official court reporter, before entering upon the duties of the office, shall be sworn to faithfully perform such duties and shall then be an officer of the court. Each official court reporter may attend court proceedings and make accurate records of all proceedings in the court, except sessions of small claims.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 51-61

  • Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
  • Public defender: means a public defender, assistant public defender, deputy assistant public defender and Division of Public Defender Services assigned counsel. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
  • Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Transcript: means the official written record of a proceeding, or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, testimony and arguments of counsel, produced in the Superior, Appellate or Supreme Court, by an official court reporter, a court recording monitor or any other entity designated by the Chief Court Administrator. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.

(b) The Judicial Branch shall employ court recording monitors. Each court recording monitor, before entering upon the duties of the office, shall be sworn to faithfully perform such duties.

(c) Each official court reporter and court recording monitor shall, when requested, furnish to the court, to the state’s attorney, to any party of record and to any other person, within a reasonable time, a transcript as may be desired, except that, if the proceedings were closed to the public, such official court reporter or court recording monitor shall not furnish such transcript to such other person unless the court in its discretion determines that such disclosure is appropriate.

(d) Each official court reporter and court recording monitor shall inform the state’s attorney whenever a transcript has been requested by a party to a case in which the state’s attorney has an appearance. If such request is made by a party, or by a party represented by counsel other than a public defender, the state’s attorney shall, upon request, receive from such official court reporter or court recording monitor a copy of the transcript at no cost, as provided in subsection (a) of § 51-63.

(e) If a transcript has been requested by the state’s attorney or a public defender in a matter in which each is a party to the case, the official court reporter or the court recording monitor shall inform the party that has not made the original request that the request has been made. If the nonrequesting party requests a copy of the transcript, prior to its delivery to the requesting party, the cost of such transcript shall be shared by the parties. The official court reporter or the court recording monitor shall provide the transcript in a form that may be photocopied, to either the state’s attorney or the public defender. If a request for a transcript is received by the official court reporter or court recording monitor subsequent to delivery of the transcript, the requesting party in this instance shall be responsible for payment of the full copy rate of such transcript as provided in subsection (a) of § 51-63.

(f) Each official court reporter and court recording monitor shall inform the court whenever a transcript of proceedings has been requested by the state’s attorney or any party of record pursuant to subsection (c) of this section. If such transcript has been requested, the court, upon request, shall receive from such official court reporter or court recording monitor a transcript at no cost as provided in subsection (a) of § 51-63.

(g) Whenever the court deems it necessary, it may order a transcript to be filed with the clerk of the trial court.