Presiding Officer James L. Pohl considered several motions during a pre-trial hearing on April 11, 2012.[49] He deferred rulings on many of them. He did rule to unshackle al-Nashiri for meetings with his lawyers, who had argued that he was traumatized by being shackled for years in secret CIA prisons and that being shackled during meetings impairs his ability to work with his lawyers.