Irvin D. Rose made a choice to represent himself at trial, but he didn’t choose to appear before a jury in shackles and a yellow jumpsuit that identified him as an inmate of the Bridgeport Correctional Center. After Rose was found guilty of assaulting a corrections officer, he appealed with the help of Southbury attorney Deborah G. Stevenson, who argued he couldn’t possibly get a fair shake dressed in prison garb.
Now after six years of appeals and counter appeals, Rose has completed his prison term. And, finally, he has won his argument.
