§ 8-5-1 Supreme court secretary and assistant
§ 8-5-2 Superior court secretary and assistants
§ 8-5-3 Appointment of superior court reporters and electronic court reporters
§ 8-5-4 Court reporters and electronic court reporters – Supplies and preservation of notes and other materials
§ 8-5-4.1 Freelance court reporters and electronic court reporters
§ 8-5-5 Reports of superior, family and district court and traffic tribunal
§ 8-5-6 Appointing court reporter and electronic court reporter for grand jury proceedings
§ 8-5-7 Appropriations for court reporters and electronic court reporters
§ 8-5-8 Sign language interpreters/transliterators and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) providers for deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind persons
§ 8-5-8.1 Waiver of interpreter/transliterator and CART provider
§ 8-5-8.2 Privileged communications
§ 8-5-8.3 Visual recording of testimony
§ 8-5-9 Right to stenographic record
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 8-5 - Court Secretaries, Court Reporters, and Electronic Court Reporters

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Capital offense: A crime punishable by death.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • 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.
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • 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).
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • 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.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8