by chin_gigante » Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:10 am
Tasker wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:06 am
What types of court records are publicly available online? Are actual court transcripts accessible?
I saw a post one time describing what a mob defendant said in their sentencing hearing (federal trial). It wasn’t something you’d find on google, and I doubt they attended in person. I’ve always wondered where someone would find that type of detailed info. Is that was PACER is for?
A lot of court documents and transcripts get put up on PACER, where you can access them for a fee per page (there's also a charge for searching PACER). Not everything is available there though, especially for cases before the mid-2000s.
For documents and transcripts that aren't on PACER, you can request them from the courts themselves, but it's much more expensive to do so.
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What types of court records are publicly available online? Are actual court transcripts accessible?
I saw a post one time describing what a mob defendant said in their sentencing hearing (federal trial). It wasn’t something you’d find on google, and I doubt they attended in person. I’ve always wondered where someone would find that type of detailed info. Is that was PACER is for?
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A lot of court documents and transcripts get put up on PACER, where you can access them for a fee per page (there's also a charge for searching PACER). Not everything is available there though, especially for cases before the mid-2000s.
For documents and transcripts that aren't on PACER, you can request them from the courts themselves, but it's much more expensive to do so.