Court Opinion

ID: 9463001
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:55:55.666554+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:53.631410
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CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully disagree with my colleagues., Here counsel at the secojid trial had available the tape recordings of the first trial as well as the trial court’s own notes. With such materials at hand, de*574fense counsel could adequately prepare for possible impeachment of witnesses at the second trial. In my view, defendant did have “an informal alternative which appears to be substantially equivalent to a transcript.” Britt v. North Carolina, 404 U.S. 222, 230, 92 S.Ct. 435. No more was required; the Britt exception applies.