SMITH

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Cross v. United States, 893 F.2d 1287 (11th Cir. 1990)
  …ity of Prichard, 661 F. 2d 1206, 1209 (11th Cir.1981) (en banc), this court adopted as precedent all of the decisions of the former Fifth Circuit decided prior to October 1, 1981. . See Tuitt v. Fair, 822 F. 2d 166, 174-75 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 945, 108 S.Ct. 333, 98 L.Ed.2d 360 (1987); United States ex rel. Maldonado v. Denno, 348 F. 2d 12, 16 (2d Cir.1965), cert. denied, 384 U.S. 1007, 86 S.Ct. 1950, 16 L.Ed.2d 1020 (1966). . Even the most cursory reading of the first pages of the trial tra…
• Ervin James Horton v. Dugger, 895 F.2d 714 (11th Cir. 1990)
  …ken place. See Robards v. Rees, 789 F. 2d 379, 383-384 (6th Cir.1986) (upholding the denial of a request for self-representation made on day of trial after jury had been empaneled). Cf. Tuitt v. Fair, 822 F. 2d 166, 171-172 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 945, 108 S.Ct. 333, 98 L.Ed.2d 360 (1987) (“A trial court has extensive discretion over last-minute requests for continuances made in order to secure substitute counsel.”); Brown, 665 F. 2d at 611 (upholding denial of request by defendant on third day o…
• United States v. Porter, 924 F.2d 395 (1st Cir. 1991)
  …ave assigned him new counsel. The law is clear, however, that a criminal defendant’s loss of confidence in his counsel does not, in and of itself, require the court to assign a new one. See Tuitt v. Fair, 822 F. 2d 166, 173 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 945, 108 S.Ct. 333, 98 L.Ed.2d 360 (1987) (“[A] defendant’s own loss of confidence in his attorney [is] an insufficient reason to delay trial in order to substitute counsel.”); McKee v. Harris, 649 F. 2d 927, 932 (2d Cir.1981), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 91…