But a federal judge refused to accept the surprise plea and urged Mr. Moussaoui, who is representing himself, to take a week to reconsider.
His speech was held up because of a new M.P., a Dr. Robert McIntyre, who represented himself to be seated without the customary Parliament sponsors.
"He has represented himself to be at distant naval stations or at sea on warships equipped with wireless apparatus," a magazine called Electrical World reported in 1907.
Yet Mr. Hood represented himself to Omega investors as "one of only seven or eight persons worldwide who had the knowledge, expertise and capability to conduct these secret multimillion-dollar trades," the United States attorney's office said.
That a foreigner should have attained so quickly such a position was remarked upon in the contemporary accounts; some scholars speculate that Afghānī (who then called himself Istanbulī) was, or represented himself to be, a Russian emissary able to obtain for Aʿẓam Russian money and political support against the British, with whom Aʿẓam was on bad terms.
The younger Lucas, it says, had represented himself to Colman as a strategic advisor to Theranos.
"We have spoken to someone representing himself to be Chris Dinota," said Beth Chun, assistant Texas attorney general of the consumer protection division.
So here is the question: can a defendant who is ostensibly competent to decide, simply and unhesitatingly, that he prefers death to the agony of life imprisonment, nonetheless be incompetent to represent himself to accomplish that result?
He was cited or arrested earlier this year for being present in a park after dark and for falsely representing himself to a police officer, a misdemeanor, according to Orange County Superior Court records.
In January 2013, he was cited for being present in a park after dark, and in February, he was charged with a misdemeanor of falsely representing himself to a police officer, according to court records.
