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OH PRA Only Required that Indigent Prisoner Be Given One Free Copy of Trial Transcript

Loaded on July 15, 2008

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Disclosure of Records, Mandamus, Transcripts. Location: Ohio.

Jonathan Call, an Ohio state prisoner, filed a mandamus action in state court to compel an appellate court judge to provide him with a free copy of his trial transcripts, pursuant to the state Public Records Act (PRA), Ohio Rev. Code § 149.43 et seq. Call had been denied the ...

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