United States v. Rigoberto Moya-Gomez Celestino Orlando Estevez Amado Raphael Leon Adalberto Herrera and Menelao Orlando Estevez

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• trial court must “conduct a formal inquiry in which the defendant is informed fully of the risks [of] proceeding pro se and explicitly advised against self-representation”
• “No matter what decision the district court ultimately makes — whether to honor the defendant’s request [to proceed pro se] or to deny it — the defendant is likely to appeal.”
• fact that the defendant opted to proceed pro se only because trial court froze his assets and he could no longer pay his counsel of choice did not render his waiver of the right to counsel involuntary

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