Where a defendant in sex abuse case made incriminating statements to an FBI officer during a voluntary interview at defendant’s place of employment, the defendant’s ...
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Inadequate Waiver
Even though defendant waived the right to counsel after the District Court read a standard group advisory concerning the constitutional rights of defendants charged with ...
Read More »Attempt to Change Counsel at Trial
Where defendant’s attorney filed a substitution of counsel to withdraw from all of defendant’s pending cases, except this one; defendant later made an appearance in ...
Read More »Assault on Court-Appointed Attorney
1. A criminal defendant forfeits his right to court-appointed counsel when he assaults his court-appointed attorney. 2. The District Court does not violate due process ...
Read More »Waiver Insufficient
Even though a public defender met with defendant, who was acting pro se, to discuss an offered guilty-plea petition and the trial rights that defendant ...
Read More »Claimed Conflict of Interest
Where defendant told the trial court that he had a strong conflict of interest with his appointed counsel because he and counsel did not agree ...
Read More »Untimely Request for Reappointment
Where it is not disputed that defendant properly waived his right to a public defender; the trial court appointed standby counsel; a week before the ...
Read More »Substitution
Where defendant did not request substitute counsel in his letter to the District Court or in his appearances before the court; defendant’s letter to the ...
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