ANA LEON T.

v.

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO ET AL.

Citator

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• 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…
• United States v. Eugenio Betancourt-Arretuche, 933 F.2d 89 (1st Cir. 1991)
  …violation of the right to self-representation ever be harmless error? Id. at 852, 95 S.Ct. at 2549 (Blackmun, J., dissenting). A. Waiver of Right to Counsel A recent First Circuit case, Tuitt v. Fair, 822 F. 2d 166, 174 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 945, 108 S.Ct. 333, 98 L.Ed.2d 360 (1987), traces the history in the federal courts of the waiver of the right to counsel. In Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 464-65, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 1023, 82 L.Ed. 1461 (1938), the Supreme Court instructed that one reque…