United States Ninth Circuit

Where the district court determines that the defendant asserted his right to self-representation solely to delay the trial, and lacked valid reasons for waiting until after trial proceedings had begun to assert the right, denial of defendant's request is proper.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/12/2001
• Published 02/12/2001

Judges

• Before:  REINHARDT, BRUNETTI, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Theodore John Kaczynski, pro per, Florence, Colorado, defendant-appellant., Robert J. Cleary, R. Steven Lapham and J. Douglas Wilson, Special Attorneys to the Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.