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DELEGATE SINGER: Are not the mechanical
problems you have mentioned in reference to keeping a
transcript very similar to those encountered by State and
Federal courts throughout the country in civil and crimi-
nal trials, and are solved there?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delecrate James.
DELEGATE JAMES: I would think that they
would be somewhat similar. However, I had a case once,
now that you have brought up the subject, and we didn't have
an experienced stenographer, and one of the girls in
Belair agreed to take the testimony and she got about
half-way through the case and she decided that she wasn't
doinq a verv good job, and she quite. And now, I for-
get exactly what happened in the case, but I have often
thought, I have often thought that the fact that the
testimony stopped in the middle of the case probably
would have created a mistrial.
THE CHAIRMAN: Any other questions of the
sponsor, Delegate Singer?
DELEGATE SINGER: Delegate James, would vou not
thjnk the resourcefulness of the- State of Maryland couiri