The defendants insisted on representing themselves; no one cross-examined witnesses on their behalf.
Robinson used a mix of street savvy and business acumen to steer clear of mob fixers and vulture promoters, Mr. Barnes said, and insisted on representing himself when negotiating purses and television paydays, "because he was the one taking the blows".
But he insisted on representing himself.
Texas executed a convicted murderer who had insisted on representing himself when he was on trial for shooting to death a mother and her son.
The judges have asked tribunal officials to come up with names of potential lawyers for Mr. Milosevic, even though he insists on representing himself in court.
This is why Howe insisted on representing Laura's acquisition of language as an almost spontaneous event: he wanted to be able to claim that he had simply activated her latent language faculty.
"We both insisted on representing the different fighting styles in an authentic way," says Wong, "similar to how Bruce Lee approached his fight scenes; we wanted real martial arts in The Grandmaster, not movie martial arts".
After he was sentenced to four months on Rikers Island, a jail term he had not yet begun to serve, Bruce grew distrustful of the law and lawyers and insisted on representing himself.
A former radical who insisted on representing herself at trial is now seeking release from prison because, she argues, the judge should have ignored her words and supplied her with a lawyer.
Their decision effectively gave Mr. Karadzic, who has insisted on representing himself, almost four additional months to prepare his defense, which is more than an appeals court gave him when it ordered the case to begin.
