United States v. Richard Leavitt

How courts have described this case

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• “The right to counsel in federal courts is governed by ... Rule 44(a) as well as the sixth amendment.”
• defendant was previously given a continuance and did not adequately show why he had not retained counsel earlier
• “[I]n some circumstances a court may constitutionally deny a continuance even when that denial results in the defendant’s being unrepresented at trial.”
• constitutional right to counsel attached where jail sentence was suspended

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).