Supreme Court Issues Policy on Shackling
- Posted by Marcia Shein
- On June 15, 2018
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- Federal Appeal, interlocutory appeal, supreme court
In May 2018, Chief Roberts of the United States Supreme Court wrote a unanimous opinion in the case of United States v. Sanchez-Gomez, which held that a challenge by several criminal defendants regarding a district’s policy of shackling pretrial detainees was moot. In these restraints, a person’s hands are handcuffed together and these handcuffs are […]
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