A New York man charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection wants to bill the government for working on his own case. A Pennsylvania restaurant owner is trying to defend herself from jail.The right to self-representation is a bedrock principle of the Constitution. But a longtime judge cited an old adage in advising a former California police chief that he would have "a fool for a client" if he represented himself.
"I would never represent myself if I were charged with a crime," U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth told Alan Hostetter before allowing him to handle his own defense against riot charges. Hostetter, who began teaching yoga after more than 20 years as an officer, told Lamberth that the "corruption of this investigation" is one reason he wants to represent himself. His finances also were a factor.
Fellows took the stand to argue for his release, brushing aside warnings from the judge that he could open himself to perjury charges if he testified.Fellows told McFadden that he used what he described as a "loophole" he had read about online to disqualify a different judge overseeing an unrelated case in New York. Fellows said he listed a phone number for that judge's wife as his own number in court records to make it appear that he knows the woman.
Bauer was arrested in May along with a friend who joined her at the Capitol. Video from a police officer's body camera captured Bauer saying to bring out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to be hanged, the FBI says. After U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled last month that Eric Bochene can represent himself, the upstate New York man submitted a "fee schedule" in which he appeared to be attempting to create a structure for him to collect fees for working on his own case.
And sadly the justice system will only slap their wrists They deserve sedition charges
Can't fix stupid.
Even if they can, doesn't mean they should. Cuz...... 'Stupid is as stupid does'.
oh boy.
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