Legal Opinion
United States v. Klat, Susan Viola
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 22, 1998No. 19-5360PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALD, Circuit Judge:
A jury convicted Susan Viola Klat of threatening to assault the Clerk of the United States Supreme Court, William Suter, and the Chief Justice of the United States, William Rehnquist. On appeal, appellant challenges her conviction and sentence based on a number of alleged errors made by the district court, including (1) allowing her to appear pro se at a hearing to determine her competency to stand trial; (2) failing adequately to warn her of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation; (3) failing to dismiss the indictment as duplicitous; (4) failing to give the…
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