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Ninth Circuit Vacates Generalized Order to Shackle Pretrial Defendants, En Banc Review Granted
Loaded on Jan. 10, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2017, page 32
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in August 2015 that a full restraint policy imposed on pretrial detainees in non-jury proceedings “ought to be justified by a commensurate need.”
Before the Court were the consolidated appeals of four federal pretrial detainees who challenged a policy instituted by federal district ...
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