United States Second Circuit

A defendant may forfeit the right to counsel, without prior warning from the court, for physically attacking his attorney.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/18/2001
• Decided 08/02/2001
• Published 08/02/2001

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before:  LEVAL, SACK and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gail Jacobs, Great Neck, NY, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Axinn, Assistant Solicitor General, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, (Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General and Marion R. Buchbinder, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), New York, NY, for respondent-appellee.