United States v. Robert L. Samuel

By order of this Court entered September 15, 1970, 431 F.2d 610, we requested the district judge to supplement the record by filing a statement of all the reasons and facts and matters from which he concluded to require defendant to be tried before a jury wearing handcuffs. We reserved the question of whether defendant’s conviction should be reversed because of an abuse of discretion on the part of the district judge in this regard. The statement has been filed, a copy was served on counsel and counsel has filed a responsive memorandum.

The statement shows that the district judge had reason to…