Commonwealth v. Harris, K., Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a trial court must “articulate, on the record, a rationale for its decision to impose particular security measures”
• holding that a trial court must “articulate, on the record, a rationale for its decision to impose particular security measures”
• noting that the district court failed to articulate sufficient reasons for imposing the use of a stun belt
• noting that the district court failed to articulate sufficient reasons for imposing the use of a stun belt
• noting that “stun belts plainly pose many of the same constitutional concerns as do other physical restraints, though in somewhat different ways.”
• explaining that reviewing courts must inquire whether the trial court considered “less restrictive, less prejudicial methods of restraints”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).