Ricky Lee Scott v. Rhonda Sullivan, Circuit Clerk; Alvah Griggs-Washington, Court Reporter, and/or Successor Krissy…

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Scott’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking publicly funded transcripts of pretrial hearings from his criminal case. Scott failed to establish either a clear and certain right to the transcripts or a compelling postconviction need for them, and the officials had no demonstrated ministerial duty to produce them at public expense. The speedy-trial and prosecutorial-misconduct theories were either previously resolved, precluded, not cognizable in postconviction proceedings, or unsupported as a basis for obtaining the transcripts.