Restraint: Joshua Beadle appears in a Memphis court wearing the bizarre mask
Beadle was also gaining a reputation in prison as a spitter - so officials decided it was time to take precautions.
He was fitted with a special nylon-and-mesh beekeeper-style face mask rather reminiscent of the muzzle that actor Anthony Hopkins wore while playing the cannibal doctor Hannibal Lector in the hit film The Silence of the Lambs.
Beadle has had to wear the bizarre-looking mask for his court appearances ever since.
He is representing himself in court after having trouble retaining representation.
His lawyer, Larry Sargent, was excused from the case after telling the court that Beadle had threatened to add him to the list of people he intended to kill when he got out of jail.
Chilling: Beadle's mask is reminiscent of the one Anthony Hopkins wore as Hannibal Lecter
A man has been forced to wear a Hannibal Lecter-style head-dress to court after spitting at the judge.
Joshua Beadle, 24, who is on trial in Memphis, Tennessee for a 2005 burglary, was forced to wear the bizarre headgear after he spat at a judge last year, barely missing him but dousing a clerk's computer.
Beadle was also gaining a reputation in prison as a spitter - so officials decided it was time to take precautions.
He was fitted with a special nylon-and-mesh beekeeper-style face mask rather reminiscent of the muzzle that actor Anthony Hopkins wore while playing the cannibal doctor Hannibal Lector in the hit film The Silence of the Lambs.
Beadle has had to wear the bizarre-looking mask for his court appearances ever since.
He is representing himself in court after having trouble retaining representation.
His lawyer, Larry Sargent, was excused from the case after telling the court that Beadle had threatened to add him to the list of people he intended to kill when he got out of jail.
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