There’s an oft-repeated saying in legal circles that goes: “He who represents himself in court has a fool for a client.” Which brings us to Monday’s startling revelation that Highland Park parade ...

Defendants who represent themselves in a court of law are pro se. The Supreme Court of the United States has held that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to refuse counsel and represent ...

The plaintiff filed a pro se complaint in 2017 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas against, among others, Irina Stepansky, DMD, claiming he was “mutilated” during dental procedures ...

ALBANY – A robbery defendant who fired his attorney and represented himself was denied his right to counsel because the trial judge failed to undertake the “searching inquiry” required before an ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Sean Williams shouldn’t expect any exceptions to federal court rules despite acting as his own attorney, an area defense attorney told News Channel 11 Monday — the same day ...

When discovery goes so off the rails that a court declares a party “has stalled the progress” of a case, prejudiced its opponent and “wasted judicial resources,” there’s little doubt the sanctions ...

A groundbreaking murder case has been ticking away at the state courthouse on Church Street for more than five years now. It has yet to come to trial—but it’s already headed to the state Supreme Court ...

This case in the Mississippi Supreme Court is a post-conviction appeal of a pro se defendant, Mr. Soweto Love, who argued that his guilty plea was not entered knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently ...

It should have come as no surprise that accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic had no use for a lawyer once he was apprehended for trial in the Hague. Choosing to represent themselves is a time-honored ...