LASKER, U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (U.S. 1975)
  …or state constitutional right [*812] to represent himself.7 Accordingly, the appellate court affirmed Faretta’s conviction. A petition for rehearing was denied without opinion, and the California Supreme Court denied review.8 We granted certiorari. 415 U. S. 975. II In the federal courts, the right of self-representation has been protected by statute since the beginnings of our Nation. Section 35 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, 92, enacted by the First Congress and signed by President Washington…
• Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd., 420 U.S. 592 (U.S. 1975)
  …1). The relation of a proceeding which is nominally “civil” to a State’s criminal laws has been relied on by lower federal courts in resolving Younger problems. See MTM, Inc. v. Baxley, 365 F. Supp. 1182 (ND Ala. 1973), probable jurisdiction noted, 415 U. S. 975 (1974); Palaio v. McAulifie, 466 F. 2d 1230 (CA5 1972). We in no way intend to suggest that there is a right of access to a federal forum for the disposition of aE federal issues, or that the normal rules of res judicata and judicial estoppel do no…
• United States v. Rev. Alberto Mejias, 552 F.2d 435 (2d Cir. 1977)
  …d the commencement of the speedy trial periods. Under all the circumstances the twenty and twenty-one month delays between the state arrests and the trial were not extraordinary. See United States v. Lasker, 481 F. 2d 229 (2d Cir. 1973), cert. den., 415 U.S. 975, 94 S.Ct. 1560, 39 L.Ed.2d 871 (1974); United States v. Inf anti, supra. The delay was engendered in order for the federal government to determine the need for, and scope of, charges to be brought, including, necessarily, an assessment of the state…