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Illinois v. Allen, No. 606 (U.S. Supreme Court) (397 U.S. 337; 90 S.Ct. 1057) (March 31, 1970) (Justice Black)

Loaded on Oct. 1, 1998 published in Punch and Jurists October 19, 1998
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Restraint of Defendant.

In the Supreme Court's leading case on the use of shackles, the Court wrote that "no person should be tried while shackled and gagged except as a last resort" because of the distinct possibility of "a significent effect on the jury's feelings".

"Lincoln said this Nation was 'conceived in liberty ...

 

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