No person charged with a public offense may be subjected, before conviction, to any more restraint than is necessary for his detention to answer the charge.
Cal. Penal Code § 688
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 2 Cal. 3d 320 - Prudhomme v. Superior Court (1970)
Most recently applied in 175 Cal. App. 4th 1109 - People v. Miller (July 2009)
Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.