Read US v. Howard, 03-50524

An order upholding a requirement that pretrial detainees making their first appearance before a magistrate judge wear leg shackles is reversed where the record does not adequately justify the necessity of the restraints.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/01/2004
• Submitted 11/01/2004
• Decided 11/15/2005
• Published 11/15/2005

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, GOULD and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Carlton Frederick Gunn, Deputy Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Patrick R. Fitzgerald and Becky S. Walker, Assistant United States Attorneys, Los Angeles, CA for the plaintiff-appellee.