Fabrications of transcripts or failure to record in the recent reported court cases

I have put together a summary table of cases I have so far covered where either court transcripts were fabricated to hide mistakes or misconduct of trial courts, or where such transcripts were deliberately not made.

The cases reported were from New York, Louisiana and Georgia, and the table was made in reliance upon court documents that I either personally have or had in my possession or court documents reported on the Internet.

	Year	Name of Court	State	Name of reporter, if any	Name of Judge	Description of fabrication
1.	Approx. 2013	Delaware County Family Court	New York	Will post upon verification with the transcript, I report contents from personal knowledge of what happened in the proceedings and from memory of contents of the transcript	Carl F. Becker	Failure to reflect in the transcript the presence of children at a court hearing where Judge Becker demeaned and belittled a female child, claiming that she is not “college material”; refusal of the court to have the stenographer correct the mistake of transcript regarding appearances, settlement of transcript by law was by the same Judge Becker whose misconduct was being covered up
2.	2014 – hearing; 2015 – fabricated transcript of hearing from audio file	Delaware County Family Court	New York	Will include the name of stenographer upon verification with the source	Rita Connerton	Judge Connerton held an ex parte hearing where she discussed my motion, and then lied to me in a letter that she did not discuss my motion at that hearing.  The transcript of the hearing where Judge Connerton is shown to discuss my motion, contrary to her lies in her letter that she didn’t, included me as appearing at the hearing, even though that was directly contradicted by contents of the transcript and by Judge Connerton own statement in an earlier letter confirming that I was not present at the hearing.
	2011	Sidney Village Court	New York	The failure was by the judge	Steven T. Rose	Failure to record picking of the jury and conferences
	2011	Bloomville Town Court	New York	The failure was by the judge	Yvonne Pagillo	Failure to record picking of the jury
	2014	Walton Village Court	New York	The failure to record was by the judge	Richard Gumo	Failure to record court conferences, public reprimand
	2014	Delhi Town Court	New York	The failure to record was by the judge	Richard Gumo	After public reprimand for failure to record court conferences, and after a pledge to the NYS Judicial Conduct Commission to record conferences – another failure to record a court conference in a politically charged case People v O’Sullivan which was later dismissed because of an arrest warrant fabricated by Judge Gumo’s court clerk and Judge Gumo’s lying under oath
	2014	Delhi Town Court	New York	The failure to record was by the judge	Richard Gumo	Failure to record arraignment in a politically charged case People v Alecia Bracci which resulted in an acquittal, refusal to provide transcripts of the trial
	2014	Appellate Division 4th Judicial Department		Kenneth H. Crewell, Jr. who has also been employed since the time of the fabrication as court reporter in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York in a racketering and corruption case	Referee Steven Sirkin, fabricated transcript accepted, despite an audio of the conference confirming fabrication. The fabrication was accepted by the 4th Department court	Transcript falsely claimed that: 1)     A conference was an evidentiary hearing held on notice – it was not a hearing, no notice of a hearing was ever given, and no such stipulation was ever made; 2)     That I made stipulations at the hearing; 3)     That signing of the transcript by any witnesses is waived –I agreed to no such thing; 4)     That I testified as a witness.
	2015	Appellate Division 4th Judicial Department	New York	Debra Garrison, see also the comment on my blog that Debra Garrison allegedly missed out a paragraph in another court proceedings and refused to provide audio file to verify veracity of her reporting	Referee Steven Sirkin, fabricated transcript accepted, despite an audio of the conference confirming fabrication. The fabrication was accepted by the 4th Department court	Transcript falsely claimed that: 1)     A conference was an evidentiary hearing; 2)     That I made stipulations at the hearing; 3)     That I was sworn as a witness; 4)     That I testified as a witness.
	2016	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York	Federal court	Transcript sealed, identity of reporter unknown	Judge Lawrence Kahn, David Peebles, former magistrate whose term expired at the time of fabrication	Held a motion hearing regarding me without notice to me and sealed the transcript of the hearing so that I or any other member of the public would not be able to access the transcript
	2015-16	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York	Federal court	N/a	Chief Judge Gary L. Sharpe	Hidden the entire record of disciplinary proceeding, including a court order, a motion to vacate, recuse and disqualify and the decision on that motion, with no hearing
		Delaware County Supreme Court	New York	N/a	Judge Robert C.  Mulvey, see online ratings for this judge here	Failed to provide a stenographer to take record of a conference, misrepresented in a court decision what happened at the conference: claimed I waived service of a motion when I did not, and brought my client as a witness to witness that; Judge Mulvey was promoted to Appellate Division 3rd Department despite my report of his misconduct to the NYS Judicial Conduct Committee
3.	2009	19th Judicial District Court, Lafayette	Louisiana	Kathleen D. Mathews who continues to work as an official court reporter in the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court for the 15th Judicial District in the State of Louisiana	Phyllis Keaty	Transcript did not reflect that disclosures of the judge regarding her irreconcilable conflicts of interest were added into the audio file by an outside expert who “spliced” the court audio file without disclosure of that to litigants; the fact of splicing was proven by testimony and evidence at trial, the attorney who brought up the problem was suspended despite being right, the judge was promoted from trial court to appellate court, see also commentary about the case
4.	2016	Appalachian Circuit Court	Georgia	Rhonda Stubblefield	Roger Bradley (resigned)/Brenda Weaver	The transcript did not reflect the judge using racial slur against a participant in criminal proceedings; the journalist and his attorney who sought access to the audio file to verify contents of the transcript were sued by the stenographer, whose legal fees were paid by chief judge of the court out of court account, arrested, charged with a felony and thrown in jail by the judge’s former law clerk – turned prosecutor; were released only after a public outrage in the media

The above evidence shows that failure to create a proper and reliable court record is a pervasive problem in state courts throughout the United States, and that measures should be undertaken to have court records created not by court stenographers, by digitally, and to prevent tampering with such digital records, as well as punishment against those who seek verification of authenticity of such records.