In re the Mental Health of L. B.

HARGRAVE, Justice.

Eighty-seven, or eighty-nine, days before the appellant came before a six-person jury that was to decide whether L. B. was a person in need of treatment as mentally ill, he became incarcerated in the Comanche County jail. Much of this time in custody, he was in solitary confinement in a cell with a solid steel door and no window. As the appellant was conducted into the courtroom in handcuffs, immediately after *499stating he would keep his hands down, and was later actually shackled and gagged, we determine that conduct so prejudiced appellant’s right to a fair trial that the…