[OBAFGKM]

Dismiss the charges, I suppose. If he can't have counsel, then he can't be tried in a U.S. court. Says so in the Constitution.

What would you do?

[onedoug]

I asked in the sense that if you were a lawyer. Not a judge.

I would NEVER be a criminal defense attorney.

[taxcontrol]

Perhaps you missed a point here. The Constitution says the accused shall have the ADVICE of counsel. Counsel can advise a guilty plea.

[doug from upland]

Someone will always defend the guilty and the despicable among us. Someone will always use legal tricks and play games to confuse at least one stupid person on the jury. Those who knowingly participate in letting off the hook murderers and child molestors have the legal right to do that. They have the right to be philosophical and say that they are just part of the system. But they make that choice. If they do, we also have the right to call them disgusting scumbags whom we do not want as friends or neighbors. We have the right to consider them lowlife pieces of human debris.

[mathurine]

Old West had the solution for perpetrators and lawyers, and the judges seemed to get it.