Case Title: State v. Lemire

Citation: 161 Vt. 624, 640 A.2d 541

Docket Number: 88-031

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1994-02-15T00:00:00Z

Document:
ENTRY_ORDER.88-031; 161 Vt. 624; 640 A.2d 541

[Filed 15-Feb-1994]


                                 ENTRY ORDER

                       SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 88-031

                             JANUARY TERM, 1994


 State of Vermont                  }          APPEALED FROM:
                                   }
                                   }
      v.                           }          District Court of Vermont,
                                   }          Unit No. 2, Chittenden Circuit
 Robert Lemire                     }
                                   }
                                   }          DOCKET NO. 3728-8-87CnCr


              In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter:

      Appellant, Robert Lemire, who was convicted below of driving under the
 influence, moves for summary reversal of his conviction because no trans-
 cript is available for us to decide one of the issues on appeal.  Defendant
 is represented by the appellate public defender, and the State supplied him
 a transcript of the proceedings below.  However, a flood at the Defender
 General's office destroyed the transcript that was prepared, and defendant
 ordered another copy.  The reporter has destroyed the notes of the jury
 drawing and sentencing and is unable to prepare a second transcript of
 those parts of the proceeding below.  Arguing that the absence of a
 transcript of relevant proceedings below deprives him of his ability to
 appeal, defendant urges us to reverse his conviction and order a retrial as
 the only appropriate remedy.

      Defendant argues that since he is indigent he has a statutory right to
 a transcript under 13 V.S.A. { 5231(2).  See State v. Kozikowski, 135 Vt.
 93, 94,