Justus v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “the conduct of a trial is committed to the trial judge’s discretion”
• observing that “the right of self-representation is not a license . . . not to comply -9- with the relevant rules of procedural and substantive law” (quoting Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 834 n.46 (1975))
• finding no abuse of discretion when a judge retried a defendant following the reversal of a capital murder conviction, as “the record fail[ed] to reveal any evidence of judicial prejudice”
• trial judge did not abuse his discretion by retrying an accused after his capital murder conviction had been reversed
• \A trial judge must exercise reasonable discretion to determine whether he possesses such bias or prejudice as would deny the defendant a fair trial.\
• “A trial judge must exercise reasonable discretion to determine whether he possesses such bias or prejudice as would deny the defendant a fair trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).