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Shackling Prisoner Witnesses at Trial Discussed

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal held a defense witness may be shackled
at a jury trial, and a defendant must request lesser alternatives to
shackling or curative instructions to the jury to not consider the
shackling for the Court to consider prejudice or error.

In state court, a California ...

 

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