Legal Opinion
United States v. Howard
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 26, 2007No. 03-50524, 03-50525, 03-50526, 03-50527, 03-50532, 03-50533, 03-50534, 03-50535, 03-50536, 03-50537, 03-50538, 03-50539, 03-50540, 03-50541, 03-50542, 03-50543, 03-50544, 03-50545PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:
This is an interlocutory appeal by criminal defendants challenging a requirement that pretrial detainees making their first appearance before a magistrate judge wear leg shackles. The district-wide shackling policy was implemented by the United States Marshals Service for the Central District of California after consultation with the magistrate judges. In each of these seventeen cases, a magistrate judge denied the Federal Public Defender’s motion for the defendant to appear without shackles at the initial appearance. The district court reviewed these adverse magistrate…
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