Tillman v. United States

FARRELL, Senior Judge:

“There can be no blinking the fact that the right of an accused to conduct his own defense seems to cut against the grain of [the Supreme] Court’s decisions holding that the Constitution requires that no accused can be convicted and imprisoned unless he has been accorded the right to the assistance of counsel.” Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 832, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975). Recently, the Supreme Court again recognized the “tension in these two principles,” Marshall v. Rodgers, — U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 1446, 1449, 185 L.Ed.2d 540, 544 (2013), one strong enough…