Rule 16 Court Reporters

(a) All criminal proceedings in the District Court involving felonies and serious misdemeanors and all proceedings in the High Court must be taken down in shorthand by a court reporter or recorded electronically. If any other proceeding is to be reported, a written request for such reporting must filed with the Clerk of Court before commencement of the proceeding and the presiding judge shall rule upon the request.

(b) Court reporters, when assigned to report a case, must take down in shorthand all the opening statements, testimony, the objections made, the rulings of the Court, voir dire, jury instructions, and arguments of counsel. If directed by the judge at the request of either party, court reporters must, within such reasonable time after the trial of such case as the Court may designate, write out the same, or such specific portions thereof as may be requested, by typewriter or other printing machine, and certify to the same as being correctly reported and transcribed and, when directed by the Court, file the same with Clerk of Courts.