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According to a court reporter’s transcript of the hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian, who decided the case, argued that “juries don’t acquit defendants of conduct. They acquit them of charges.”

Authorities say Metoyer also shot William Davis, 34, who testified from next to the court reporter because his motorized wheelchair — required because of the extent of his injuries — prevented him from using the witness stand.

But also braille books, his adaptive computer and his cobalt blue Light-Touch Perkins Brailler — a nine-key typewriter, not unlike a court reporter’s stenotype machine, that many experts consider essential for a blind child to access literacy.

County Superior Court, emailed a statement that said the court’s leadership “is committed to fair and equal access to justice. That includes ensuring all litigants maintain their full appellate rights by having access to a verbatim record of their proceedings when a court-employed court reporter is unavailable and fundamental rights or liberty interests are at stake.”

Higher pay offered by private-sector work has compounded struggles to maintain adequate court reporter staffing.