Joseph Frederick Robards v. John Rees, Superintendent, Kentucky State Reformatory and David L. Armstrong, Attorney General

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• holding that state trial court properly denied motion for self-representation because it was made the first day of trial and after the clerk had called roll of jurors, and so it “would have impermissibly delayed the commencement of the trial”
• reviewing, for abuse of discretion, denial of request for self-representation when request made on day of trial
• applying abuse-of-discretion review to a self-representation motion made after jurors had already been called

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