U.S. v. HOWARD

Nos. 03-50524, 03-50525, 03-50526, 03-50527, 03-50532, 03-50533, 03-50534, 03-50535, 03-50536, 03-50537, 03-50538, 03-50539, 03-50540, 03-50541, 03-50542, 03-50543, 03-50544, 03-50545.

480 F.3d 1005 (2007)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jesse Lee HOWARD, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Luis Farias-Blanco, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Angel Cedillos, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Herman Boulies, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daniel Rivera-Gonzalez, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jorge Pineda-Fernandez, a/k/a Jorge Peneda, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Randolph Arthur Cisneros, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cornelio Garcia-Chavez, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Cabanillas-Nunez, a/k/a Jose Arsenio Cabanillas, Jose Arencio Nunez, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Raymond Flores, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christian Raudales, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Miguel Lencia, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Raymond Cazares, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Vernon Crocker, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lorena Gallardo, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeffrey Darryl Wafer, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Pedro F. Sandoval-Sandoval, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlos Alvarez, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton Frederick Gunn, Deputy Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants.

Patrick R. Fitzgerald and Becky S. Walker, Assistant United States Attorneys, Los Angeles, CA for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, GOULD and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.


SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:

This is an interlocutory appeal by criminal defendants challenging a requirement that pretrial detainees making their first appearance before a magistrate judge wear leg shackles. The district-wide shackling policy was implemented by the United States Marshals Service for the Central District of California after consultation with the magistrate judges. In each of these seventeen cases, a magistrate judge denied the Federal Public Defender's...

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