The reason one should not be shackled is because some may presume the prisoner guilty or may imply the prisoner may be a threat, this obviously can taint the jury. With this point I agree.
In Casey Anthony's case it may also have been to save her anymore embarrassment and injury as she seems unable to wear them without losing equilibrium, crashing to the floor and chipping a tooth requiring dental repair.
If Casey Anthony needs to speak with her attorney she just needs to indicate that at some point during the proceeding and her Attorney will arrange it, if he wants to, or needs to.
Unfortunately the defendant continually plucks at, pokes, touches and flirts with both her male attorneys they have yet to get this behavior under control, she has also slapped JB's arm and tried to get his attention while at the podium.
I could go on but you get my meaning, she is the embarrassment in the courtroom and her rights far from being impinged upon are indulged to an extreme degree.
The vast majority aren't sitting here hoping Casey gets karma bombed in some way just to indulge our need for revenge. Most respectfully, I find your own judgment to be over harsh and a little critical. All most people want is justice for Calyee who amidst all the brouhaha is almost always forgotten.
Look I apologise if you took offense at my comment. Not least because I did not mean to. Why would I? You are just commenting as you feel based upon your sympathy for Caylee and (what I imagine) you firmly believe happened to her.
TBH, I am not being critical. That's why I said I understand why people take the view that they do.
To jump to your comment at the end, I agree that Caylee has been forgotten in all this. However, I would say this is due to the media circus, or more accurately all those who are pandering to it. The through-flow of gold-digging experts, the dream team that no longer is (
some of whom I must say I have enormous respect for), Jury Consultants publicity seeking then dropping the case (or so we are told) at the last minute, and last but not least the ever changing representation, most irksome being Nejame representing different parties notwithstanding actual (or at least potential) conflict of interest. Whatever, Casey did or tried to do could not have nearly the effect all of the foregoing has had on this Trial/Circus. Regardless of whether or not she contributed to this trial becoming a circus she certainly isn't the cause.
Unfortunately, however a Criminal trial is necessarily centered on the Defendant because in such a situation we are not so much on a "search for the truth" as we are concerned with the answer to the question "has the state proven the
Defendant is guilty" AKA "is the
Defendant guilty". If this feeds sociopath's desires then so be it. That's because we in society say that to ensure we do not convict innocent people we must give everyone a fair trial before convicting them of a criminal offense. Unfortunately, it is easy to grant these rights to people that we like but the test of a truely civilized society is one which grants these fundamental rights to those that we don't like or even despise.
In any event, back to the thread of your point. Maybe we are getting all bit excited over this issue (I take some blame here). Let's face it: she is spending a few extra minutes in the court room. I very much doubt this is most troublesome matter for anyone concerned in this case. There are WAY more important issues such as (1) what actually happened (not the question the Trial has to answer but certainly a seminal issue), (2) the penalty ICA should face if convicted, (3) what evidence should be admitted, (4) finding an impartial jury that can actually try this case. Perhaps we all (me included) lost sight of this
.
Just as an aside, though, the "flirting". I think it has been blown out of proportion. I have seen attorney's console their clients, etc with all possible permutations of male client/female lawyer, male client/male lawyer, etc so on it's own that is not an issue. But as irksome as we may find some of other "over-friendly" behaviours I very much doubt much can realistically be done to stop this and again as long as she get's a fair trial and it doesn't impede the judicial process it really is not that important.
In any event, what's the point? Could you imagine if the SA were to stoop to the level of filing a "
Motion to Enjoin the Defendant from Touching her Attorney's or looking at them in a Flirtatious Manner and Fluttering her Eyelashes in a Coquettish Fashion"? Wouldn't this just overly sansationalise the trial? Does Jeff Ashton really need to be nicknamed "FogHorn LegHorn, Junior" or "Clueless Wonder Mark II"?
N.B. I respect that some may find this "flirtatious" behaviour offensive to Caylee's memory but there is a lot worse that has gone on in this Media Circus that is more insulting to the memory of Caylee and I firmly believe that the best way of honouring a homicide victim is a fair trial of the alleged/suspected perpetrator followed by a jury doing their best to render a true verdict.
In any event. I hope you don't take offense at what I said.[
