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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 45
BY SENATOR MURRAY
COURTS. Provides relative to preparation of transcripts in Orleans Parish Criminal District
Court for appeals. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 13:1373(B), relative to courts and judicial procedure; to provide2
relative to the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court; to provide certain procedures,3
terms, and conditions; to provide relative to clerks and court reporters; to provide4
relative to the preparation of court transcripts for appeals; and to provide for related5
matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 13:1373(B) is hereby amended and reeancted to read as follows: 8
ยง1373. Minute clerks and court reporters 9
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B. The court reporters shall: 11
(1) Report in full the testimony taken in all preliminary examinations.12
(2) Report in full all cases appealable to the judges of the criminal district13
court sitting as a court of appeals.14
(3) Prepare, make up, and furnish to the clerk of the criminal district court the15
transcript of the testimony, including bills of exceptions, motions, writs, and all court16
proceedings, taken in all cases appealed from judgments of the criminal district court17 SB NO. 45
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to the judges of this court sitting as a court of appeals, and to the supreme an1
appellate court, as may be required by the clerk of the appropriate appellate court.2
The clerk of the criminal district court shall prepare, make up, and furnish the3
transcripts of appeals to the supreme court. The court reporter who prepares such4
transcripts shall be entitled to be compensated for his services, if funds are available,5
in all cases at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per thirty-one line page.6
(4) Report the proceedings in the trial of all capital cases, and in felony cases7
where the punishment may be imprisonment at hard labor for term exceeding five8
years, but only when a written request is made therefor by the attorney for the9
defense or the district attorney.10
(5) Report the proceedings in cases triable by the judge without a jury11
wherein an appeal may be had to the supreme an appellate court, when a written12
request is made therefor by the attorney for the defense or the district attorney, and13
in such other proceedings as in the opinion of the court may be important and14
necessary.15
(6) Report the evidence objected to in cases not otherwise required to be16
reported, whenever an objection shall be made and a bill of exceptions reserved, and17
to transcribe it in case of appeal.18
(7) In all cases of appeal to the supreme an appellate court, furnish to the19
clerk of the criminal district court three certified copies of the testimony taken and20
of the bills of exception to which the testimony shall have been annexed.21
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry G. Jones.
DIGEST
Murray (SB 45)
Present law relative to Orleans Parish Criminal District Court provides procedures for
preparation of transcripts and reports of testimony by court reporters in cases appealed from
judgments of the criminal district court to the judges of the court sitting as a court of appeals,
and to the supreme court. Proposed law changes "the supreme court" to "an appellate court"
and retains remainder of present law.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 13:1373(B))