[Txsleuth]

If the reasoning is that the shackles influences the jury to give a harsher sentence....couldn't the opposite be said?

If I am on a jury that convicts a person of murder, but he/she is allowed to walk around WITHOUT shackles, then perhaps I am persuaded that he/she isn't dangerous anymore, and am too lenient in sentencing...

There are WAY too many convicts that commit crimes upon release from prison as it is....

[Carolinamom]

Going along to get along is the Rodney King form of that damned "comity" these senators so love, wanting to be in good standing w/the rest of the boys and girls in the club.

COMITY SHOULD NOT TRUMP REPRESENTATION OF AND FOR THEIR CONSTITUENCY.