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“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi
sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa
fayecimento di nos ser stima:
Juliana Heye-Stede
Cariñosamente yama “tanchi Ana”
*17-08-1936 - †12-10-2021
Acto di despedida lo wordo anuncia
despues
A fayese nos casa, ruman, tanta stima:
Lucia Croes-Diaz
*29-12-1957 †08-10-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
obituario/u.s. news Dialuna 18 OctOber 2021
Risky business:
Some Capitol riot defendants forgo lawyers
(AP) - Some of the defendants charged in the
storming of the U.S. Capitol are turning away
defense lawyers and electing to represent
themselves, undeterred by their lack of legal
training or repeated warnings from judges.
That choice already has led to some curious legal
maneuvers and awkward exchanges in court.
A New York man charged in the Jan. 6 insurrec-
tion wants to bill the government for working on
his own case. A Pennsylvania restaurant owner is
trying to defend herself from jail. A judge told an-
other New Yorker that he may have incriminated lected in the attack. And the strategy is already
himself during courtroom arguments. testing judges’ ability to maintain control of their
courtrooms.
The right to self-representation is a bedrock prin-
ciple of the Constitution. But a longtime judge “I would never represent myself if I were charged
cited an old adage in advising a former California with a crime,” U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth
police chief that he would have “a fool for a client” told Alan Hostetter before allowing him to handle
if he represented himself. his own defense against riot charges. The judge
warned the ex-police chief that he has never seen
And Michael Magner, a New Orleans criminal anyone successfully represent himself since his ap-
defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, pointment to the bench in 1987.
observed, “Just because you have a constitutional
right to do something doesn’t necessarily mean Hostetter was arrested in June along with five
that it’s smart.” other men on charges that they conspired to stop
Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the
The decision by at least five defendants to defend presidential election. The indictment links four of
themselves is bound to create a host of challenges, Hostetter’s co-defendants to the Three Percenters,
particularly for those behind bars. They risk get- a wing of the militia movement.
ting themselves in more legal trouble if they say
the wrong thing in court. They have to sift through Hostetter, who began teaching yoga after more
than 20 years as an officer, told Lamberth that the
the mountain of evidence investigators have col-
“corruption of this investigation” is one reason he
wants to represent himself. His finances also were
a factor.
“I believe that it’s a governmental strategy and tac-
tic that if they can’t convict you, they at least want
to bankrupt and destroy you,” Hostetter said.
Another defendant representing himself, Brandon
Fellows of upstate New York, recently unsuccess-
fully petitioned U.S. District Judge Trevor McFad-
den to release him from jail.
Ki alegria, ora nan a bisa mi:
"Ban cas di Señor!" Video shows Fellows, who was photographed
I awor, ata mi aki para na bo porta wearing a fake orange beard during the riot, with
Señor. his feet propped on a table in the office of Sen.
Salmo 122 Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. Fellows was locked up this
summer for missing a mental health evaluation ap-
pointment and harassing a probation officer.
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa
fayecimento di nos ser stima: Fellows took the stand to argue for his release,
brushing aside warnings from the judge that he
could open himself to perjury charges if he testi-
fied.
In doing so, Fellows may have compounded his le-
gal troubles.
Fellows told McFadden that he used what he de-
scribed as a “loophole” he had read about online to
disqualify a different judge overseeing an unrelated
case in New York. Fellows said he listed a phone
number for that judge’s wife as his own number
Maria M. Dubero in court records to make it appear that he knows
the woman.
Cariñosamento yama “Rubia”
Fellows said he also asked the public defender who
*25-10-1923 - †14-10-2021 represented him before he rebuffed counsel in the
riot case if he should try to get McFadden replaced
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues by contacting the judge’s family, but the lawyer
warned him that would get him arrested.