United States v. Warner

I join in Judge Cahill’s opinion and write only to express my concern with the delay in the assignment of a defense counsel to this case. As Judge Cahill points out, it took almost ninety days from the date offenses were known until charges were preferred and referred to trial. Moreover, although Appellant was restricted during that period, there is no indication in the record that Appellant had access to counsel. Furthermore, even after charges were referred to trial, it took almost another month before a counsel was detailed to represent Appellant. This kind of delay in providing an accused…