Killercop: " Until I'm found competent, I don't see how that is relevant. I have retained counsel. I would like counsel to come forward and represent me, Mr. McAfee in the background."
We think this includes the assistance of counsel, if requested, and the right to call witnesses to give testimony, relevant either to the issue of complete exculpation or in extenuation of the offense and in mitigation of the penalty to be imposed. See Hollingsworth v. Duane, 12 Fed.Cas. 359, 360; In re Stewart, 118 La. 827; Ex parte Clark, 208 Mo. 121.
COOKE V. UNITED STATES, 267 U. S. 517 (1925)
"I remember one woman walking by," said Jason Washburn, a corporal in the US Marines who served three tours in Iraq. He told the audience at the Winter Soldier hearings that took place March 13-16, 2008, in Silver Spring, Maryland, "She was carrying a huge bag, and she looked like she was heading toward us, so we lit her up with the Mark 19, which is an automatic grenade launcher, and when the dust settled, we realized that the bag was full of groceries. She had been trying to bring us food and we blew her to pieces."
Under the
Constitution, the defendant’s presence “is a condition of due
process to the extent that a fair and just hearing would be thwarted
by his absence, and to that extent only.” United States v. Gagnon,
470 U.S. 522, 526 (1985) (quoting Snyder v. Massachusetts, 291
U.S. 97, 108 (1934)). Thus, the Constitution does not guarantee
that a criminal defendant be present at all stages of the trial but
rather only at “critical stage[s].” La Crosse v. Kernan, 244 F.3d
702, 707-08 (9th Cir. 2001).
Rule 43(a), Fed. R. Crim. P., provides in part that a defendant
must be present at every trial stage, including the jury
impanelment and the return of the verdict and sentencing, unless
otherwise provided by the rules.
Rule 43(b)(3), Fed. R. Crim. P., provides in part that a
defendant need not be present where the “proceeding involves only
a conference or hearing on a question of law.”
Members:
Judge George H. King, Chair
Judge Roger L. Hunt
Judge Lawrence K. Karlton Judge A. Howard Matz
Judge Jeffrey T. Miller
Judge Marsha J. Pechman
Magistrate Judge John Jelderks
"A conference or hearing 'only' on a question of law." Okay, the word 'Only' appears "Clearly defined" to me. Kinda like the word no. And the word all.
A.K.A. THE CASE OF "A FACTUAL QUESTION OF WHOIS CONFUSED"
So, is judge A. Howard Matz incompetent, or did he break the law, and conspire with two other attorneys to do it? He did arrange the secret hearing personally...Lets ask The Wise Latina. CONFUSIUS
By Judge A. Howard Matz' own ruling and decree, the factual question and thereafter NATURALLY illegal finding, of one of the people's competence, or incompetence, is thus so thus and therefore said people need not be present in the room, or even the same state, before ONE finds them "incompetent" enough to be sent off for a mental "treatment." And said treatment may begin at anytime, before the finding of a fact!
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