Hodgin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “A prisoner who has filed a proper [PCR] motion ... ,■ and whose motion has withstood summary dismissal ..., may be entitled to trial transcripts or other relevant documents under the discovery provisions of [Mississippi Code Annotated section] 99-39-15, upon good cause shown and in the discretion of the trial judge. If the prisoner’s request for transcripts or other documents is denied, and his overall petition is ultimately denied, then he may appeal the denial of his petition for collateral relief pursuant to [Mississippi Code Annotated section] 99-39-25 which provides that final judgments entered under the [Uniform Post-Conviction Relief] Act may be reviewed by this Court on appeal brought by either' the' State or the prisoner. Within that appeal, the prisoner may include the claim that the denial of his request for transcripts or other documents was error..., • However, nothing in the Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act or elsewhere gives a prisoner the right to institute an independent, original action for a free transcript or other documents, and then if dissatisfied with the trial court’s ruling, to directly appeal that ruling to this Court as a separate and independent action. Fleming did not file his request for [a] free transcript and other documents as part of a motion under the Act for post-conviction collateral relief.... Therefore, this appeal should be dismissed due to a lack of jurisdiction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Minor v. State