He asked to be permitted to represent himself.
Lawyers appointed by Bo's relatives said they had not been permitted to represent him.
Well before the date of trial, however, Faretta requested that he be permitted to represent himself.
Mr. Kaczynski's demand that he be permitted to represent himself, and then his apparent suicide attempt last week, persuaded the judge to order the examination.
If he is, Judge Burrell would face the question of whether to accept Mr. Kaczynski's demand that he be permitted to represent himself.
In its appeal to the United States Supreme Court, Indiana v. Edwards, No. 07-208, the state included in its brief excerpts some motions Mr. Edwards filed with the trial court that led the judge to conclude that he should not be permitted to represent himself.
Second, the nature of the problem before us cautions against the use of a single mental competency standard for deciding both (1) whether a defendant who is represented by counsel can proceed to trial and (2) whether a defendant who goes to trial must be permitted to represent himself.
(e) With respect to the limitation in paragraph (b) of this section, a person who had been authorized under paragraph (a) of this section to represent a claimant who later dies and is replaced by a substitute pursuant to 38 CFR 3.1010 for purposes of processing the claim to completion will be permitted to represent the substitute if the procedures of § 14.631(g) are followed.
Instead of an arbitrary selection by an editor, each poet has been permitted to represent himself by the work he considers his best, the only stipulation being that it should not yet have appeared in book form".
Panetti's lawyers have appealed his death sentence, arguing that he should never have been found competent to stand trial, should not have been permitted to represent himself, should have been found insane, and should not have been sentenced to die.
