Court Opinion

ID: 9781285
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 16:28:24.988749+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:23.581773
License: Public Domain

McFadden, Judge,
concurring fully and specially.
I concur fully in the majority opinion. I write separately to point out the General Assembly’s direction that, “It shall be the court reporter’s duty ... when directed by the judge, to record exactly and truly or take stenographic notes of the testimony and proceedings in the case tried, except the arguments of counsel.” OCGA § 15-14-1 (emphasis supplied). Of course there may be a variety of ways to discharge that duty. See Robertson v. State, 268 Ga. 772, 778 (15) (493 SE2d 697) (1997); State v. Knowles, 247 Ga. 218 (274 SE2d 468) (1981). And the parties have a related responsibility to preserve error. But the playback of recorded material during a trial constitutes a part of the “proceedings in the case.” Consequently a court reporter’s statutory duty to create a transcript which, in conjunction with the rest of the record, is “complete and accurate enough to afford a full and fair review by the [appellate courts]” extends to the playback of recorded material. See Knowles, supra.