Leonie Brinkema
Leonie Brinkema
Leonie M. Brinkemais a United States district court judge for the Eastern District of Virginia...
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Unless the United States demonstrates a legitimate reason why these recordings are essential to an issue in dispute either in the guilt or penalty phase of this case, these tape recordings should not be admitted at trial,
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disturbed by the extent to which the United States' intelligence officials have classified the pleadings, orders and memorandum opinions in this case.
rule seen violation
In all the years I've been on the bench, I've never seen such an egregious violation of the court's rule on witnesses.
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Because Mr. Freeman has consistently declined to comply, ... the defendant's motions requesting that Mr. Freeman be permitted to provide him with out-of-court legal assistance ... are denied.
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Unfortunately, it is now obvious that no attorney appointed by the court will satisfy the defendant,
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The quantity and quality of the defendant's pleadings strongly reinforce our conclusion that standby counsel must remain on this case,