United States v. Andrew Traeger

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that “mutually admissible” evidence—i.e., evidence that is admissible for either charge—is not prejudicial
• noting, in rejecting appeal of defendant convicted of bank robbery who “went through three lawyers, firing them for questionable reasons,” that “a defendant may waive the right to counsel through his own contumacious conduct”
• identification not unduly suggestive despite the fact only the defendant wore a visible ankle restraint
• officers “not required to search for identical twins in age, height, weight, or facial features” in conducting lineups
• identification not unduly suggestive despite the fact only the defendant wore a visible ankle restraint
• “Because representation by counsel and self-representation are mutually exclusive entitlements, the assertion of one right constitutes a de facto waiver of the other.”

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