Legal Opinion
United States v. Eric Powell
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 6, 2017No. 14-2507Published
1Concurring in part, dissenting in part 1
CONCURRING IN PART AND DISSENTING IN PART
2Concurring in part, dissenting in part · MooreKaren Nelson Moore, Circuit Judge
What more could Earnest Proge or Carlos Powell have done? At their Final Pretrial Conference on March 26, 2014, both men raised serious concerns with their legal representation. Proge moved to substitute his retained counsel. Powell moved to *783represent himself. With their trial for orchestrating one of the largest drug-trafficking conspiracies in the history of Detroit weeks away, both men sought to avail themselves of fundamental protections that the Sixth Amendment enshrines: for Proge, the right to counsel of choice; for Powell, the right to…
3Cases cited21 opinions
- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Sullivan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Illinois v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- McKaskle v. WigginsSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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