Connecticut General Statutes > Chapter 874 – Court Reporters
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- Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
- Chambers: A judge's office.
- Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- Probate: Proving a will
- Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
- Public defender: means a public defender, assistant public defender, deputy assistant public defender and Division of Public Defender Services assigned counsel. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
- Public official: means any official of (A) the state, (B) any state agency, board or commission, or (C) a municipality of the state acting in an official capacity. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
- Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
- Transcript: means the official written record of a proceeding, or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, testimony and arguments of counsel, produced in the Superior, Appellate or Supreme Court, by an official court reporter, a court recording monitor or any other entity designated by the Chief Court Administrator. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
- Transcript page: means a page consisting of twenty-seven double-spaced lines on paper eight and one-half by eleven inches in size, if printed, with sixty spaces available per line, on paper or stored in an electronic medium that is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
- Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.