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Estelle Vs. Williams

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 03, 1976

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  1. U.S. 501 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Estelle v. Williams
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  2. U.S. 501 (1976) Estelle v. Williams
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  3. of assault with intent to murder with malice. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction. Williams v. State
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  4. that the error was harmless. The Court of Appeals reversed on the basis of its own prior holding in Hernandez v. Beto
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  5. error. (1) The right to a fair trial is a fundamental liberty secured by the Fourteenth Amendment. Drope v. Missouri
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  6. Coffin v. United
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  7. no doubt that the probability of deleterious effects on fundamental rights calls for close judicial scrutiny. Estes v. Texas
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  8. prison or jail clothing because of the possible impairment of the presumption so basic to the adversary system. Gaito v. Brierley
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  9. Hernandez v. Beto
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  10. Brooks v. Texas
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  11. Commonwealth v. Keeler
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  12. Miller v. State
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  13. People v. Shaw
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  14. People v. Zapata
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  15. Eaddy v. People
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  16. witnesses for the prosecution, an unacceptable risk is presented of impermissible factors coming into play. Turner v. Louisiana
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  17. U. S. 466 , 379 U. S. 473 (1965). That such factors cannot always be avoided is manifest in Illinois v. Allen
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  18. repugnant to the Page 425 U. S. 506 concept of equal justice embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment. Griffin v. Illinois
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  19. instance, that the harmless error doctrine is applicable to this line of cases. 500 F.2d at 210-212. See also Thomas v. Beto
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  20. supra at 637. Other courts are in accord. Bentley v. Crist
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  21. Watt v. Page
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  22. In this case, the Court of Appeals quoted the language of Mr. Justice Douglas, speaking for the Court in Harrington v. California
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  23. We held in Chapman v. California
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  24. Id. at 395 U. S. 251 -252 (citations omitted). In Chapman v. California
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  25. or in an attempted escape, courts have refused to find error in the practice. In United States ex rel. Stahl v. Henderson
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  26. People v. Roman
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  27. defense tactic to produce the defendant in jail clothes in the hope of eliciting sympathy from the jury. Anderson v. Watt
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  28. supra, at 1176. Cf. Garcia v. Beto
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  29. F.2d 655, 656 (CA5 1971). This is apparently an accepted practice in Texas courts, Barber v. State
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  30. Stahl v. Henderson
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  31. Bentley v. Crist
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  32. F.2d at 856. See also Dennis v. Dees
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  33. F.Supp. 354, 359 (ED La.1968), disapproved on other grounds, United States ex rel. Stahl v. Henderson
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  34. Williams v. Beto
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  35. Ring v. State
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  36. Prior Texas cases Page 425 U. S. 512 had made it clear that an objection should be interposed. See Wilkinson v. State
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  37. requirement suggests that the trial judge operates under the same burden here as he would in the situation in Johnson v. Zerbst
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  38. showing of actual prejudice must be made by a defendant seeking to have his conviction overturned on this ground. Hall v. Cox
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  39. McFalls v. Peyton
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  40. We are not confronted with an alleged relinquishment of a fundamental right of the sort at issue in Johnson v. Zerbst
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  41. and tactical decisions, even those with constitutional implications, by a counseled accused. See, e.g., On Lee v. United
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  42. United States v. Indiviglio
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  43. looked to whether actual injury or prejudice had resulted from the defendant's appearance in jail garb. Garcia v. State
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  44. U.S. Supreme Court Estelle v. Williams
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  45. Williams v. State
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  46. the Fourteenth Amendment. Drope v. Missouri
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  47. Estes v. Texas
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  48. Gaito v. Brierley
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  49. Turner v. Louisiana
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  50. Illinois v. Allen
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