United States v. Dana Blum, United States of America v. Chester Blum

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• dismissing similar \Hobson's choice\ argument where defendant had been offered \a real alternative\
• “Generally it is Eighth Circuit policy to refuse to consider pro se filings when a party is represented by counsel.”
• \The right to testify on one's own behalf at a criminal trial is derived from the fifth and sixth amendments.\
• adequate inquiry where defendant presented conclusory complaints and court listened to comments from defendant and prosecutor
• defendant who desires to testify must act affirmatively and express to court that desire at appropriate time, or knowing and voluntary waiver is deemed to have occurred.
• general policy is to refuse 1 The Honorable Lawrence L. Piersol, United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota. pro se filings when party is represented by counsel

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