Motion to Obtain, Free of Cost, a Certified Transcript of the Record

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE 

STATE OF GEORGIA 

  

WILLIAM HENRY FURMAN 

NO, 25163 

Vv. : MOTION TO OBTAIN, FREE OF 

COST, A CERTIFIED TRANS SCRIPT 

STATE OF GEORGIA OF THE RECORD, ‘e
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TO THE HONORABLE W. H. DUCKWORTH, THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE 

SUPREME COURT OF GE RGIA: s : 

William Henry Furman, by counsel, moves this cours for an 

order, or other appropriate process, so that movant is furnished 

free of cost, a certified transcript of the record in order to 

file and perfect a petition for writ of certiorari in the 

Supreme Court of the United States. 

Movant, William Henry Furman, is prese ently imprisoned in 

the Georgia State Prison under a sentence of death. Movant was 

convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the Chatham 

Superior Court. His conviction was affirmed by this court on 

April 24, 1969, {April Term, 1969, #105). 

Movant gs. to file a petition for writ.of certiovari in 

the Supreme Court of the United States pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 

§1257(3) to review the judgment of this court on the grounds 

that his conviction and sentence of death violate his rights 

under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United 

States. In order to obtain review by the United States Supreme 

Court, movant is required to file with the Clerk of the United 

States Supreme Court a certified transcript of the record in the 

  

 



  

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case. Rule 21 of the Rule 

States. 

Movant is and has be 

proceedings against him. 
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forma pauperis Because   

pay the cost of the trans 

the Clerk of this Court © 

transcript of the record. 

Court has refused to furni 

movant pays a fee of $128 

The denial to movant 

in this Court, free of cos 

review in the Supreme Cou 

judgment solely because o 

Equal Protection Clauses 

United States Constitutio 

tion based on his poverty. 

(1956) ; Lane v. Brown, 37 

City, 37 U.S.L.Week 4524 

cannot constitutionally di 

of his poverty by refusin 

of the record, free of CO 

transcripts to similarly 

pay for them. 

WHEREFORE 

grant his motion that he 

transcript of the record 

and perfect his petition 

Court of the United States. 

, movant re 

8s of the Supreme Court of the United 

en a pauper during all stages of the 

His appeal to this Court was in 

of his poverty, movant is unable to 
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il 

cript of the record. He has requested 

Oo Furnish him, free of cost, a certified 

(See Appendix A). The Clerk of this 

ish the certified transcript unless 

5. (See Appendix B). 

of a certified copy of the proceedings 

st, denies movant his right to seek 

¥*t of the United States of this Court's 

f his poverty. The Due Process and 

Of the Fourteenth Amendment to the 

Nn protect him From invidious discrinming~ p 

Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12 

2 U.S. 477 (1963); Williams v. Oklahoma 

(June 9, 1969). The State of Georgia 

iscriminate against movant on account 

g to furnish him a certified transcript 

st, where the State furnishes such 

situated defendants who are able to 

spectfully requests that this Court P Y 

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be furnished free of cost a certified 

in this case, so that movant may file 

for writ of certiorari to the Supreme 

Respectfully submitted, 

B. Clarence May field