Memorial T-Shirts Banned in a Courtroom

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February 23, 2008

In New Zealand, a family was forced to remove memorial t-shirts before the murder was freed on mail. The teenage who was killed as a tagger who was about to tag a mans fence and then was stabbed and killed on January 26, 2008. The memorial t-shirts are green with the victim’s photo on them but the judge tol them that they can’t wear them in court. Some people were upset that they had to remove the shirts but others understood it was fair. The “Garth McVicar of the Sensible Sentencing Trust commended Judge Harvey on making his order against the T-shirts, saying that over the years there had been a deterioration of respect for the courts.”

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