ELLISON

v.

ESTELLE, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Elledge v. State, 408 So. 2d 1021 (Fla. 1981)
  …aint case is the degree of prejudice caused by the restraints. Here, we can find very little prejudice since the appellant was an avowed dangerous individual. See United States ex rel. Stahl v. Henderson, 472 F. 2d 556, 557 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 411 U.S. 971,36 L.Ed.2d 694 (1973). Second such restraints are within the sound discretion of the court, and the record indicates the judge had information that the appellant had threatened to attack his bailiff. El-ledge through his confessed acts had proven hi…
• Doyall Tompkins v. State, 386 So. 2d 597 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980)
  …o cases where a defendant appeared in prison garb. Even the rule that an accused cannot be forced to stand trial in prison garb over objection is not a per se rule. In United States ex rel. Stahl v. Henderson, 472 F. 2d 556 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 411 U.S. 971, 93 S.Ct. 2166, 36 L.Ed.2d 694 (1973), the court declined to overturn a conviction where the defendant was tried in jail clothes when he had been charged with having murdered another inmate while in prison. The circuit court noted that the jury wou…
• Estelle v. Williams, 425 U.S. 501 (U.S. 1976)
  …ons, when, for example, the accused is being tried for an offense committed in confinement, or in an attempted escape, courts have refused to find error in the practice. In United States ex rel. Stahl v. Henderson, 472 F. 2d 556 (CAS), cert. denied, 411 U. S. 971 (1973), the Court of Appeals declined to overturn a conviction where the defendant, albeit tried in jail clothes, was charged with having murdered another inmate while confined in prison. “No prejudice can result from seeing that which is already kn…