What Not To Wear...To Court
No shoes, no shirt, no justice!
Last year, I saw a young black man stopped at the doors of the Moultrie Courthouse in Washington, D.C. He was there to watch a trial but was told by a security officer that he couldn’t come in because he was wearing a tank top. I, a law student, was there to assist a public defender in court. When I saw the young man turned around, I wondered whose trial he might be missing — a friend, a family member, a parent?
The official code of conduct for the District of Columbia Courts states that “[p]ersons wearing inappropriate attire
