“Since the defendant was not present in court by choice, I do not believe he could legitimately be forced to profess a respect he did not feel.”
Alas, these are the concluding words of the dissent in In re Chase (7th Cir. 1972), found via this post by Eugene Volokh about a Muslim woman on trial in federal court for “allegedly funneling money to a terrorist group in Somali” who has been found in contempt of court and sentenced to 50 days in jail for refusing to rise when the judge entered the courtroom.
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