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  • Court bans shackling of murder defendants

    05/23/2005 9:57:00 AM PDT · by EveningStar · 192 replies · 4,937+ views
    AP - StL Today ^ | May 23, 2005 | Gina Holland
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court, brushing aside warnings by two justices that it was jeopardizing courthouse safety, ruled Monday it is unconstitutional to force capital murder defendants to appear before juries in chains and shackles. Justices threw out the sentence of Carman Deck, who was shackled in leg irons and handcuffed to a chain around his belly when he faced a Missouri jury that put him on death row. Carman Deck as he appeared at his double murder trial in Jefferson County in 1996.