[joesnuffy]

Black robed inmates running the asylum

imo

[visualops]

And the Supreme Court continues it's journey off planet Earth, last spotted approaching the Horsehead Nebula.

[redgolum]

And the guy that overpowered the guards, shot a few, and managed to get out of an Alanta court house is what? A fluke?

[Txsleuth]

Considering what happened in Atlanta a couple of months ago, this decision makes a lot of sense, oh, yeah!!!

[livius]

IIRC, there was just a case where a murder defendant - who had been released from his shackles and was in a cell - got a deputy's gun and killed a number of people. Anybody remember the details?

[dts32041]

I suppose a red laser dot on the chest is out, also?

[RightField]

Let me get this straight .... he was shackled at his SENTENCING? This means ... ummmmm ... the jury already found him guilty?

from the article: Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, said that shackling indicates to juries "that court authorities consider the offender a danger to the community."

"It also almost inevitably affects adversely the jury's perception of the character of the defendant," he wrote.

just d*mn. Seems like the jury already gave their perception of the defendant.

[FormerACLUmember]

This technique was just tried in Atlanta, Georgia. The happy unshackled defendent shot the judge and other court officials dead.

[Zacs Mom]

Since the issue seems to be that seeing the defendant in chains and shackles makes him appear dangerous to jurors, how about we just wire the felons with 50 or so seperate taser receptors (discreetly hiding under their shirt, of course) and arm the bailiff and guards with remote trigger mechanisms.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Can we put them in a big Lucite box instead then?

[Steve_Seattle]

Doesn't the fact that the defendant has been arrested and charged with a crime serve to prejudice the jury? The Supreme Court is being too clever by half.

[fatnotlazy]

"The decision left room for court personnel to handcuff or chain defendants, but only if they pose a special security risk."

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Hate to tell the justices, but ALL of the defendants pose a special security risk.

[FatherofFive]

Put them in a (bullet proof) glass case. Elevator access from basement. We'll do it for their safety, to remove any negatives.

BTW, "The man in the glass booth" was a very good movie.

[RetiredArmy]

The socialist thought process continues to amaze me. Simply amazing.

[Diddle E. Squat]

The Republicans could not have asked for a better timing of the release of this decision.

[petro45acp]

This one is simple. Two officers, both with remote controls and located at opposite ends of the courtroom, and a remote controlled shock belt on the defendant. He even twitches wrong, and zap (or zot as one prefers), one incapacitated dirtbag.

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[Adder]

Which Euroweenie country did they get THAT ruling from?
These people are effin nutz.

[stop_fascism]

Deck was convicted of killing James Long, 69, and his wife, Zelma, 67, near De Soto, Mo., in 1996. He went to the elderly couple's door asking for directions, but once inside shot them both twice in the head and stole about $400.

I don't know why anyone would consider him dangerous.

[The Old Hoosier]

Oh, here's a great idea. F-ing morons.

[Peach]

NO!!

After what happened in Atlanta they can still make that decision?

When you're up on a capital murder charge, you don't have a lot to lose and it's a matter of time before there's more violence in the courtroom.