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A High Court judge has dis­missed an ap­pli­ca­tion brought by at­tor­ney CJ Williams, who sought to stop the State from us­ing blind­folds dur­ing at­tor­ney-client vis­its at the Teteron Bar­racks de­ten­tion fa­cil­i­ty.

The mat­ter was heard yes­ter­day af­ter­noon be­fore Jus­tice West­min James, who ruled that the use of a blind­fold while es­cort­ing at­tor­neys to the meet­ing area was not un­rea­son­able giv­en the se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns in­volved.

Williams rep­re­sents in­mate Earl Richards, one of the men charged with the 2014 mur­der of Se­nior Coun­sel Dana See­ta­hal. Richards is be­ing held at the De­fence Force-con­trolled com­pound un­der State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions. Williams ac­cused the State of breach­ing a Ju­ly 22 court or­der by fail­ing to fa­cil­i­tate a vis­it with­out re­stric­tions. He filed a con­tempt ap­pli­ca­tion seek­ing en­force­ment of the or­der and sanc­tions against the State.