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...that Berg had grabbed him near the south corridor of University Hall and shoved him out of the building into a crowd of people massed on the building's steps. He added that he had no knowledge of Kilbreth's assaulting him, and the prosecutor entered as evidence a transcript of Kilbreth's former testimony...
Sidney Lipman, the freelance stenographer who worked at the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest in Edgartown, has changed all that. A plump, tenacious Bostonian of 45, Lipman insists that he has the right to sell copies of the inquest transcript for publication. Not only has the controversy forced the Suffolk Superior Court to impound the document until the issue is resolved; it has suddenly made court stenographers highly visible and subject to sharp questions about their rights and roles...
Rival Release. Lipman was hired for the inquest by District Attorney Edmund Dinis, who suggested that the stenographer could undoubtedly supplement his court fee by selling transcripts to the press. Lipman assembled a six-man team including two reporters, two secretaries, a duplicator operator and a messenger boy. He contracted with news organizations to sell 79 transcripts at $1.05 per page or $802.20 per set. Then Lipman discovered that a Suffolk Superior Court clerk, Edward V. Keating, planned to release the transcript at the bargain price of $75 per copy...
Lipman filed suit to block that release. Said he: "We worked very hard in Edgartown, and I spent a lot of money getting the transcript to the judge every morning. Now I'm just asking to get what I deserve from...
...full-time court stenographers often have both their salaries and out-of-court fees regulated by statute. Even so, Mrs. Dorothy Brackenbury, the chief reporter in Judge Julius Hoffman's court during the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, stands to make a modest fortune selling the 22,500-page transcript at the federally regulated price of 40? per page. At this rate, she can gross $9,000 per copy, and she already has several buyers...