United States v. Steven Latin

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• describing a litigant’s motions that were predicated on redemption theory as frivolous
• discussing a belief with “no legal support” that a defendant’s “ancestors came from Africa, that he is therefore a Moorish national, and that as a result he need obey only those laws mentioned in an ancient treaty between the United States and Morocco.”
• “Edwards simply means that the Constitution may have 14 No. 19-2266 allowed the trial judge to block [the defendant’s] request to go it alone, but it certainly didn’t require it.”
• “The district court was also entitled to rely on all of its informal observations of [defendant] over the course of two years, during which time [defendant] exhibited no behaviors suggestive of mental illness

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