Missing Transcripts

Whether the absence of the court reporter’s notes of Valles’s trial, destroyed in violation of state law despite Valles’s request that they be preserved, deprived him of his appeal, thus violating his due process rights and rendering the appellate process fundamentally unfair. (Fernando Valles, May 4, 1995)*

Whether the omission of virtually every defense objection from the trial transcript, in violation of the Court Reporter Act, was sufficiently “substantial and significant” to mandate reversal of Trevino’s convictions. (Norma Leticia Trevino, June 1, 1993)