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Okla. court orders response in warden's wife case
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Posted: 02/02/2012
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The wife of a former Oklahoma prison warden who is serving a one-year prison sentence for helping a convicted killer escape almost 18 years ago claims she is indigent and unable to pay for a transcript of her trial.
A Greer County jury in September convicted 49-year-old Bobbi Parker of helping Randolph Dial escape from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite in 1994.
Since then, Parker has appealed her conviction and says she's unable to afford the $100,450 it costs for a transcript and exhibits from her four-month-long trial.
Last month, District Judge Richard Darby, who presided over Parker's trial, denied Parker's request that the transcript be provided at state expense.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday ordered Darby to explain why it shouldn't grant Parker's request.
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