In the Interest of J.B., K.B., and P.S., Minor Children

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• holding that state court must provide indigent defendant with his preliminary hearing transcript
• granting habeas relief for refusal of state to provide indigent defendant with free transcript of preliminary hearing
• finding “Congress had not intended to require repetitious applications to state courts”
• finding presumptive value in trial transcripts over the dissent of Justice Harlan, who argued “at no time has petitioner suggested any use to which the preliminary hearing transcript could have been put, although he is in a position to know what it contains”
• concurrent second coram nobis proceeding on distinct claim is not basis to decline federal habeas jurisdiction
• indigent entitled to free transcript of preliminary hearing for use at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).