His lawyers informed Colorado state court Judge William Sylvester on Thursday that they were not ready to proceed to an arraignment of their client on the scores of criminal counts leveled against the 25-year-old former graduate student.
In response, Mr. Buell said that the government welcomed a speedy trial and was willing to proceed in the 70 days between arraignment and trial that are allotted under the Federal Speedy Trial Act.
New arraignments in state-run courthouses in the five boroughs proceeded on their normal schedule.
But Mr. Aron's lawyers, who pleaded not guilty on Mr. Aron's behalf during his arraignment in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Thursday, said that their client's competency simply allows them to proceed and that they were still considering an insanity defense.
If Mr. Lovett's day proceeds the way Mr. Atwater's did, he'll be interviewed for hours before a bail arraignment in county court.
One young man's arraignment was particularly unnerving: The ADA noted that the defendant's "street name" is "Guns and Butter," and then proceeded to refer to the young man not as "the defendant" or by his given name, but rather as "Mr. Guns and Butter".
In a 5-to-4 ruling, the court overturned its 1986 opinion in a Michigan case, which forbade the police from interrogating a defendant once he invoked his right to counsel at an arraignment or a similar proceeding.
