Larsen v. Nooth

A Lincoln County grand jury charged petitioner with a multitude of serious felonies. For two weeks in January 2011, petitioner was tried before a jury on those charges. Throughout that trial, petitioner was shackled. Not in old fashioned chains or irons, but by wearing under his clothing a "Band-It," an electro-shock restraint device, commonly, though somewhat inaccurately, referred to as a stun belt. The decision to shackle petitioner throughout trial did not come following a hearing, at which the state would have presented evidence of petitioner's particular safety risk, or his history of…