Legal Question in Criminal Law in Missouri

contact the StL County Court clerk's office. They can tell you if the tapes are still in storage, or they may refer you to the civl / criminal records department (whichever kind of trial it was) If they are still in existence, they are probably in storage and will take a few dys to retrive. You will have to pay for a transcript. If one has already been generated, you may have to only pay for copying charges (usually about 50 cents a page). If not, you will have to pay for one of the court reporters to transcribe the tape. I do not know if they will allow you to hire an outside stenographer to make a transcript. This might cost from a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars if the trial was of significant length.

Good luck