Pamela H. Beavers v. McDowell County BOE

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• holding that an accused may not be compelled to stand trial before a jury while dressed in identifiable prison clothes
• holding that a defendant cannot be compelled to \stand trial before a jury while dressed in identifiable prison clothes\
• holding that state cannot, consistent with due process and equal protection, require an accused to stand trial while wearing identifiable prison clothes
• holding that compelling the accused to stand trial in jail garb violates due process because it inherently impairs the jury’s basic presumption of the defendant’s innocence
• recognizing that “[n]o prejudice can result from seeing that which is already known”
• holding that a defendant’s appearance in prison attire at trial seriously compromises the defendant’s right to the presumption of innocence basic to the adversary system

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).