Last week, I posted about a judge in Las Vegas who had ordered a public defender to be handcuffed in the courtroom during a case in which she was representing a man that the judge then sentenced to jail time.
Is it ok if I call you Conrad? I noticed that you refer to the attorneys appearing before you by their first names, so I thought, since we’re all officers of the court here, that it would be ok to leave off your honorifics.
Bakhtary's colleagues at the Clark County Defenders Union also denounced Hafen's actions in a letter to news media.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace, seen here in 2015, ordered a female deputy public defender to be put in handcuffs Monday for what he called unprofessional behavior.
Hafen claimed to the Review-Journal that Bakhtary had exhibited " a progression " of unprofessional behavior in the courtroom for some time , and that he'd been "trying to work with her" but believed she didn't "understand" him. So he ordered her to be restrained.
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Hafen did not immediately respond to HuffPost's request for comment.