Winter v. City of Geneva

How courts have described this case

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• noting that common-law right may be overcome if restraints are “necessary for a particular defendant in a particular proceeding”
• holding that the defendant received a favorable ruling when, in response to a complaint that the jury could see him in shackles, the trial court ordered that a barrier be placed around the defense table to hide the shackles from the jury’s sight
• “Even when shackles are not visible to the jury, however, shackling a defendant during trial is non-constitutional error in violation of the common law unless it is necessary for a particular defendant in a particular proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).