Opinion ID: 2265552
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Heading: Lack of a Transcript of the Parole Board Hearing

Text: The Superior Court heard this post-conviction review case on a statement of facts agreed to by the parties. However, both in the Superior Court and before this court parolee has argued that his right to due process has been violated because the transcript of the second hearing on parole revocation does not contain the first 25 minutes of that proceeding. The gap in the transcript apparently resulted from an accidental malfunctioning of the tape recorder used at the hearing. We cannot find that Ingerson's rights were infringed in any way by the lack of a transcript of a portion of the hearing. Due process does not require that a parole revocation hearing be recorded. See Martineau v. Perrin, 601 F.2d 1201, 1207 n. 6 (1st Cir.1979). Furthermore, Ingerson stipulated the facts to be used both in the trial court and on appeal, and he has at no time even suggested that any of the agreed facts would be shown to be erroneous by the missing transcript. Ingerson, who has been represented by the same counsel at all relevant times, has not suggested how unavailability of a portion of the transcript of the 1982 hearing has caused him any prejudice; and no prejudice is apparent from the record before us. The Superior Court correctly ruled that the unavailability of a complete transcript did not require reversal of the Parole Board's decision.