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PEOPLE v. STEVENS

No. S158852.

47 Cal.4th 625 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LORENZO STEVENS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

November 5, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Charles Dell'Ario, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Rene A. Chacon, Stan Helfman, Laurence K. Sullivan and Arthur P. Beever, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

CORRIGAN, J. —

We hold here that the stationing of a courtroom deputy next to a testifying defendant is not an inherently prejudicial practice that must be justified by a showing of manifest need. Defendant Lorenzo Stevens attempts to bring his case under the exacting manifest need standard by asserting that the deputy's presence is akin to a "human shackle." A divided Court of...

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