ORDER

CHRISTOPHER C. CONNER, Chief District Judge.

AND NOW, this 26th day of February, 2019, upon consideration of the request (Doc. 358) filed pro se by defendant Robert Duane Hunter ("Hunter"), in which Hunter requests that the court provide him with a copy of his sentencing transcript free of charge, ostensibly to assist in the preparation of an anticipated motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, (see id.), and the court observing that, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 753(f), a court may require the government to bear the cost of furnishing transcripts to persons proceeding in forma pauperis in habeas corpus proceedings, and that Hunter has been granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis, (Doc. 355), but the court further observing that this statutory provision generally applies only after a habeas proceeding has been instituted,1 and that, for petitions brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, transcripts may be furnished only after the judge certifies that the petition "is not frivolous and that the transcript is needed to decide the issue presented by the suit or appeal," 28 U.S.C. § 753(f), and it appearing that Hunter has not yet filed a Section 2255 motion, and that the court consequently cannot determine whether the issues that Hunter intends to raise are frivolous or whether the transcript is necessary to decide those issues, it is hereby ORDERED that Hunter's request (Doc. 358) is DENIED without prejudice to the refiling thereof after Hunter files a Section 2255 motion.