United States v. Robert Larry Mayes, and Dallas Earl Scott

How courts have described this case

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• holding trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying midtrial request to take over for competent counsel
• finding no Speedy Trial Act violation when considering as a factor the defendant’s failure to ask to be tried separately from a co-defendant
• “The constitution does not grant criminal defendants the right to embark on a ‘broad or blind fishing expedition among documents possessed by the government.’”
• “If the right is not asserted before trial, it becomes discretionary with the trial court whether to allow the defendant to proceed pro se.” (internal quotations and citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).