Robert Lee Norris v. Henry Risley, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the invalidated practice “constituted a continuing reminder that various spec- tators believed [the defendant’s] guilt before it was proven”
• holding that spectator buttons reading \Women Against Rape\ inherently prejudiced the defendant
• fair trial denied to the defendant when female spectators wore large buttons bearing the slogan “Women Against Rape” at the defendant’s trial for kidnapping and non-consensual sexual intercourse
• presence of female spectators wearing large buttons with the slogan “women against rape” in the audience of a trial for kidnapping and sexual intercourse without consent deprived defendant of a fair trial
• abrogated by Carey v. Musladin, 549 U.S.70, 127 S.Ct. 649, 166 L.Ed.2d 482 (2006)
• “Women Against Rape” buttons signaled community’s belief in defendant’s guilt to jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).