In the Matter of: Chad Lee Klasna

How courts have described this case

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• court-appointed appellate counsel cannot “faithfully discharge the obligation which the court has placed on him unless he can read the entire [written] transcript”
• “[W]hen, as here, new counsel represents the [defendant] on appeal, how can he faithfully discharge the obligation which the court has placed on him unless he can read the entire transcript?”
• “We conclude that [new appellate] counsel’s duty cannot be discharged unless he has a transcript of the testimony and evidence presented by the defendant and also the court’s charge to the jury, as well as the testimony and evidence presented by the prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).