U.S. v. RICHARDSON

No. 13-31190.

781 F.3d 237 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Almond J. RICHARDSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 20, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helina S. Dayries , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Ryan Robert Crosswell , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Michael J. Jefferson, Esq. , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Catherine M. Maraist , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Gwendolyn Kay Brown , Attorney, Parish Attorney's Office, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before PRADO, ELROD, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.


This appeal presents the question of whether the trial testimony of a government witness elicited in contravention of the defendant's Sixth Amendment right of self-representation constitutionally may be admitted in the defendant's retrial when the witness becomes unavailable between the first and second trials. We...

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