Government of the Virgin Islands v. James, Irving

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• recognizing that “district courts have discretion to deny an untimely request to proceed pro se after weighing the prejudice to the legitimate interests of the defendant against the potential disruption of proceedings already in progress”
• recognizing that ―district courts have discretion to deny an untimely request to proceed pro se after weighing the prejudice to the legitimate interests of the defendant against the potential disruption of proceedings already in progress‖
• finding “most significante]” in determining valid waiver that defendant had standby counsel to answer any questions during trial
• upholding defendant's waiver of counsel where the trial judge warned the defendant that \a person who has himself for a lawyer is a fool[.]\
• finding timely a request made on the first day of trial, but before jury selection
• finding valid defendant's request to proceed pro se asserted on the day of trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).