United States v. William David Dawson

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• holding that the jail-issued khaki shirt and trousers did not give any indication in any way that the defendant was in confinement and did not deny the defendant the right to a fair trial
• finding that plain khaki clothing worn by the defendant did not mark him as a prisoner; khaki shirt and pants “did not appear to be the usual prison garb”
• finding that plain khaki clothing worn by the defendant did not mark him as a prisoner; khaki shirt and pants \did not appear to be the usual prison garb\
• khaki clothing worn at trial bears “no characteristics which distinguish it as prison garb”; thus no constitutional violation
• khaki clothing worn at trial bears \no characteristics which distinguish it as prison garb\; thus no constitutional violation
• \[i]t is the extent to which the defendant's clothing is communicative of his status as a prisoner (and inferentially a criminal) which determines whether or not he was denied a fair trial\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).