Britt v. North Carolina, No. 70-5041 (U.S. Supreme Court) (404 U.S. 226; 92 S.Ct. 431) (December 13, 1971) (Justice Marshall)
In this case the Court considered whether an indigent defendant was entitled to a free transcript of his own previous trial, which had ended in a mistrial because the jury was deadlocked. The Court relied upon Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12 (1956), which had held that as a matter ...
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