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SAN DIEGO - A San Diego federal judge was reprimanded by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday for ordering the teenage daughter of a defendant handcuffed during her father's sentencing hearing.
As part of the reprimand, Benitez will not be assigned new criminal cases for three years and attorneys may request to recuse him from sentencing hearings for supervised release violations -- the same type of violation that led to the sentencing hearing at the heart of the reprimand.RELATED: 13-year-old girl handcuffed and questioned in court
Benitez then had the girl placed in handcuffs and asked her,"You see where your dad is?" and later asked,"How did you like the way those cuffs felt on you?" Witness accounts differ on how long the girl was handcuffed, but several people reported she was crying throughout the hearing and after leaving the courtroom.
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