Edward Clayton v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary

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• when court reporter could not find notes, testimony of court reporter and judge who received plea was an adequate substitute
• “[T]he state’s failure after six years to find the petitioner’s transcript is not so egregious a breach of duty as to relieve the petitioner of his initial burden of proof.”

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