Sentence examples for requested to represent from inspiring English sources

Previously, Judge Pohl had ruled that bin Attash had not demonstrated "good cause" to fire his lawyers, and bin Attash hadn't requested to represent himself.

She said she turned down at least one request to represent a Hamptons nightclub this summer.

But she approved his request to represent himself in court; he has twice dismissed his own lawyers.

In June a federal judge rejected his request to represent a prisoner held in the 1998 Tanzania embassy bombing.

The judge in the case, Leonie M. Brinkema of Federal District Court in Alexandria, has delayed a decision on the applicability of death penalty while she weighs whether to grant Mr. Moussaoui's request to represent himself at trial.

Mr. Kaczynski assserted that a federal judge had violated his rights by letting his lawyers use his mental condition as a defense, over his objections, and by denying his request to represent himself.

The judge has in the past said she was very likely to grant Mr. Moussaoui's request to represent himself as long as he agreed to undergo a psychiatric examination and that he was shown to be mentally competent and acting voluntarily.

The 7-to-2 decision overturned a ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court that had found that a schizophrenic man was entitled to a new trial on a charge of attempted murder because the trial judge had improperly denied his request to represent himself.

Mr. Dunham, the chief federal public defender in Alexandria, and the other court-appointed lawyers have hired two psychologists who found that Mr. Moussaoui might be mentally ill and that mental illness could explain his request to represent himself in the trial.

Today Judge Brinkema granted Mr. Moussaoui's request to represent himself, but only after warning him that he was ill-advised to act as his own lawyer and that his court-appointed defense lawyers were respected litigators who had worked diligently on his behalf.

Mr. Barasch's requests to represent Mr. Stanford's firm, which he eventually did on one occasion, were described in a scathing report issued by the S.E.C. inspector general that raised questions about whether there was a violation of the conflict-of-interest restrictions on former government employees.