Oak Island Hotel Co. v. Oak Island Grove Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he constitutional right to counsel is a shield, not a sword, and ... a defendant may not manipulate this right for the purpose of delaying the trial or playing 'cat-and-mouse' with the court.”
• “[T]he constitutional right to counsel is a shield, not a sword, and . . . a defendant may not manipulate this right for the purpose of delaying the trial or playing ‘cat-and-mouse’ with the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).