United States Ninth Circuit

Defendants' mail fraud convictions are affirmed where: 1) defendants' courtroom behavior, although eccentric at times, would not have justified, let alone required, the involuntary deprivation of their constitutional right to represent themselves; 2) it was not an abuse of discretion for the district court to conclude that a prior judge's rulings did not display a "deep-seated favoritism or antagonism that would make fair judgment impossible"; and 3) the district court’s instructions were not findings of fact.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/10/2010
• Decided 07/06/2010
• Published 07/06/2010

Judges

• Barry M. Silverman

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maitreya A. Badami, Laurie Kloster Gray