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Fla. Supreme Court Bans Shackles for Juveniles in Courtroom
8 hours ago ago from Alabama Women's Resource Network
Jordana Mishory Daily Business Review December 21, 2009 The Florida Supreme Court has banned the widespread practice of shackling juvenile defendants in courtrooms , calling it repugnant, degrading, humiliating and contrary to the state's primary purposes of the juvenile justice system. In an unsigned 6-1 opinion, the court amended the rules of judicial procedure to state a juvenile defendant cannot be placed in handcuffs, ...
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15 hours ago ago from ENOUGH ROOM
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1 day ago ago from Commentarama
At long last, some ground is being gained in the ongoing battle of Islamofascism versus free speech. Our English cousins don't have a First Amendment, but they've built a lot of protections into their basic documents and common law. That wasn't the problem. It was England's very archaic and pro-plaintiff libel laws that were getting attention from the free nations of the West. Nearly every news article or editorial exposing the facts ...
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