Is someone charged with a felony entitled to a transcript from the police interview? 55 Answers as of November 16, 2011

Your attorney would receive a transcript of any interview you were a party to. Your attorney could also request and obtain the CD from which the transcript is made. This assumes that you have been charged. If the case is still under investigation, the police will likely not give you a copy.

An attorney is entitled to evidence of any statement made by his client.

If the interview is part of the police report and it should be, you or your attorney are entitled to a copy of the entire police report including the interview. It may in the form of a CD and not a transcript.

Yes, if you are a defendant charged with a felony crime in Minnesota, you are entitled to receive a transcript or CD of any statement made by you during a police interview. The criminal defense attorney will make a discovery request to the prosecuting attorney for the disclosure of all evidence in the case including any statements made by the defendant or any other witness.

Not a transcript. If the person is the accused, their lawyer can obtain a copy of the statement - usually a recorded statement - from the prosecutors. No other witness is entitled to a copy of their statement.

You are entitled to see or hear all evidence that the police have in the case. If you don't have an attorney, you must request the CD in a Request For Discovery. Good Luck.

A person charged with a major crime, as every felony is, is entitled to discovery, that is, all the evidence in the prosecution's possession, which includes all police reports, etc. However, you need to hire counsel to get this evidence, and it may be necessary for counsel to subpoena further evidence, such as video feeds of your statement, if same were taken. Of course, if no court reporter was present to transcribe your statements, or there was no videotape taken, they will not be produced.

You are not entitled to a transcript of the police interview. In most cases, a transcript is not even generated. However, during the discovery process your lawyer is entitled to get a copy of any recording, if your interview was recorded.

If you have an attorney, your attorney can request that transcript from the DA. If you don't have an attorney, I strongly recommend hiring one. Good luck.

If the State plans to use an interview with police against you at trial, there will be a time that they must provide that to your counsel.

Your attorney can request that transcript by following procedures in PC 1050.

The attorney can get this as part of the discovery that the accused is entitled to in a case.

Your attorney can get the transcript form the District Attorney when the discovery is done.

You're entitled to a copy of it but not the transcript. You can pay to have it transcribed yourself.

If a recording was made of the interview, you are entitled to a copy in discovery. Your lawyer should be asking the DA for that.

Yes. As part of the discovery process in the case, any statements may be acquired from the prosecutor in the case.

Your attorney will make an Omnibus motion and request all the information and documents in the file. Eventually the prosecutor will have to supply the video tape of the interview and and Miranda Warnings, statements, or notes of the officers. You should not have talked to the police, you should have requested that the questioning stop and that a lawyer be provided free of charge. Like most people, you talked to the police and probably incriminated yourself. Retain a good criminal attorney to handle the case in order to get the best possible disposition of the case.

Yes, but this is done through an attorney. Law enforcement usually don't give discovery directly to the defendant. You need an attorney to file a proper discovery request and provide you with a copy of all the discovery.

Your attorney will get the transcript as part of discovery or can specifically request same.

If there is such a interview record, the defendant is entitled to the discovery as to same.

If a dvd or cd of the interview was made then yes you are entitled to it after you are indicted as part of the discovery process. Also a transcript if one was made. You can't have somethig that does not already exist.

Generally, the attorney for the accused is the only person entitled to criminal discovery. The only exception to this rule is when the accused chooses to represent himself and you must go before a judge and waive your right to counsel. Of course, without legal training, you stand a good chance of being convicted so if I were in your shoes, I would get an attorney and wait until you can listen to the recording at the lawyer's office. If you can't be that patient, you're well on your way to a guilty verdict.

In Colorado, any statements of the accused must be turned over in discovery. So, generally, yes.

As part of the open discovery rules, you are generally entitled to any information that the State is in possession of. The form is not specific, so you may not necessarily be given a transcript, especially because there may not be one, but if not you should at least be given a copy of the audio or video of the interview.

Generally, a defendant's attorney can seek copies of their client's statements, among other things, although not necessarily a prepared transcript.

You can request that as part of the Discovery process.

Generally , yes. However, there are times when counsel may not think it in client's best interst to provide the recording. [if in custody, cannot have cd for security safety reasons].

If there is a recording of the interview, you should be able to obtain a copy of it.

Yes, the defense is entitled to all discovery (evidence) in the case. They get all the copies of the police reports, recorded statements, photos, videos, etc. EVERYTHING.

If you have an attorney, the attorney will get that along with other information that the police have gathered in "discovery." If you do not have an attorney, you should consider hiring one or applying for a public defender. If you defend yourself, you can ask the prosecutor for a copy of the discovery file.

In a felony case after the matter has been bound over to district court (after the PH), you should be given a copy of all the police reports, etc..

Yes. If charges are filed the accused can obtain the interview.

Yes, it is called discovery and there may be a fee to get it but you are entitled to a copy of review it. If you have an attorney they can get it for you.

They may not be entitled to a transcript but they are entitled to the CD through the process of discovery. It is up to the defense attorney/ defendant to hire someone to transcribe the CD.

Yes, you have a right to a copy of the CD or DVD that has the police interview on it. You or your attorney need to submit a request in writing to the prosecutor, requesting discovery for your case. Once you do so, the prosecutor should provide that to you, though they may charge you a reasonable fee for the cost of providing the copy.

Statements by defendant are discoverable upon request by your attorney and must be turned over.

Your attorney is entitled to a copy of the recording and most counties have a local rule of court that requires any party that intends to introduce a recording to provide a transcript to the court and the opposing party a certain number of days before the trial.

The attorney will request it as part of the discovery in the case. If the recording exists, he/she should get it. An attorney will know the procedure to request it. If they get it and want it transcribed for use at a trial, the attorney will have it done.

You could get the video of the interview through discovery.

That is part of the discovery materials your attorney would get, and to which he has a right, if the case is filed.

You can request them from the police via FOIA request. You will probably have to pay a nominal fee for them. If you have been charged your attorney (if you have one) should be able to get them for you as well.

Yes, but you are not entitled to it until it is introduced in evidence at a Preliminary Hearing, or if that does not happen, then during discovery after the formal arraignment. You are absolutely entitled to any written statement you provided or any recording or transcript.

Yes. Your lawyer should get that along with all of the police reports and etc. from the prosecutor or directly from the police agency that did the interview, depending on how it works in your county or city.

The accused is not automatically entitled to it, but his or her attorney would be able to get that information from the prosecutor during the discovery process.

You can request this discovery from the police through your attorney.