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Arraignment in chapel ruled 'harmless error'

By By David L. Hudson Jr.
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Holding court proceedings in a prison chapel violates the establishment clause, a Texas state appeals court ruled recently ? but it deemed the error harmless and did not require reversing the guilty plea of a defendant who was arraigned there. Conrad Lilly, who was facing charges for assaulting a public servant, was arraigned in the French Robertson Unit Chapel of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Jones County, Texas. (The court opinion does not say when the arraignment occurred.) Stat read more

Full post as published by First Amendment Center: Religious Liberty on February 26, 2011 (boomark / email).