It's taken 14 months, but the Ninth Circuit can now finally, formally declare that federal judges can't seize children sitting quietly in the courtroom and have them forcibly handcuffed to the jury box.
Psychologically torturing a crying girl is bad? Wow. Truly a very thorny and difficult moral and ethical question deserving over a year to hash out.
But he did not allow her to immediately return to her seat. Instead he told her, "don't go away. Look at me." He asked her how she liked "sitting up there" and "the way those cuffs felt on you." Still in tears, she responded that she "didn't like it."
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