United States Ninth Circuit
US v. Brandau, 06-10512
In a disorderly conduct prosecution, an order requiring defendant to be shackled at his pretrial appearance is vacated and the matter is remanded to a district judge outside the Eastern District of California to conduct an evidentiary hearing regarding the present shackling practice, to determine whether the action was moot.
Appellate Information
- Argued 04/15/2009
- Decided 08/21/2009
- Published 08/21/2009
Judges
- REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, JOHN T. NOONAN and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Robert Warren Rainwater, Eugene, OR, for the defendants-appellants., Lawrence G. Brown, United States Attorney, and Karen A. Escobar and Stanley Albert Boone, Assistant United States Attorneys, Fresno, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.