ROBERTS v. LaVALLEE

No. 193, Misc.

389 U.S. 40 (1967)

ROBERTS v. LaVALLEE, WARDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 23, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren H. Greene, Jr., for petitioner.

Leon B. Polsky for the Legal Aid Society of New York, as amicus curiae, in support of the petition.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioner is an indigent. He was charged with robbery, larceny, and assault in New York. When his case was called for trial, petitioner asked that the court furnish him, at state expense, with the minutes of a prior preliminary hearing, at which the major state witnesses had testified. A New York statute provided that a transcript of the hearing would be furnished "on payment of . . . fees at the rate of five...

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