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Kudos to victorious pro se murder defendant Harold Stewart.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. Mi.). Congratulations to pro se first degree murder defendant Harold J. Stewart not only for winning his retrial last month in Prince George's County, Maryland, Circuit Court, but also for doing so with a jury deliberation that lasted less than one hour.   Warning: Do not represent yourself in a jailable case. In fact, Mr. Stewart first went to trial represented by defense counsel. The case mis-tried when the judge determined that one of the jurors did not speak adequate enough English to sufficiently deliberate. Mr. Stewart later replaced his public defender legal counsel with a private lawyer who urged him to accept a second degree murder guilty plea. Mr. Stewart refused, the private lawyer returned Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).