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TOBIN DRAWS A LINE IN THE SAND

By JAABLOG

Chief Judge Victor Tobin is done messing around with shackling issues.  Spurred on by the recent Supreme Court Order banning the wholesale shackling of juveniles in court, he's decreed that an administrative order will shortly go into effect banning the parading of shackled juveniles in public sectors of the courthouse.  After that, he says, he'll ban the parading of shackled adult offenders.  If they're in public, they won't be wearing any jewelry.  Period."I'm embarrassed for them, me, and the 17th Circuit," Tobin told a room full of juvy judges, BSO, DJJ, SAO, and PD reps Friday at noon, referring to the "degrading manner" of the public parades, adding "I'm not going to be embarrassed any longer."  "This falls to the county to get them to court without degrading and dehumanizing them ...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).