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SUNDAY NOTES

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 The never-ending parade ...JUVY'S Still Shackled - it's been way more than the sixty days Chief Judge Victor Tobin promised it would take for his Administrative Order banning the parading of shackled juvenile and adult offenders throughout the central courthouse.Here's what Tobin said back in January:"I'm embarrassed for them, me, and the 17th Circuit ... I'm not going to be embarrassed any longer ... This falls to the county to get them to court without degrading and dehumanizing them ... they're innocent until proven guilty ... it's totally unacceptable to the Bench."So, was the whole thing merely new courthouse politics at play, as we alluded to in the original posting?  Or has Tobin been completely overruled by BSO, yet another indication of his faltering administration?  And is anybody paying attention?Stay tuned ...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on March 21, 2010 (boomark / email).