Lawyers want judge punished for having public defender handcuffed Daniel Medwed, a criminal law expert and professor at Northeastern University, said Hafen’s actions are indeed alarming. “If a judge perceives that a lawyer is acting inappropriately, then contempt is the usual recourse, and/or initiating a disciplinary action,” Medwed said. “But handcuffing a lawyer to teach a lesson strikes me far outside the norm of […]