Opinion ID: 361134
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The third expulsion.

Text: 44 a) Events. 45 The examination of Dr. Walker on the morning of March 13 was completed by appellant's standby counsel. When he had finished appellant was brought back again and warned that he would be sent from the courtroom only so many times. Tr. Mar. 13, pp. 31-33. Appellant then promised to remain as a proper Indian. Id., p. 33. He was allowed to continue with his case despite interrupting the prosecutor soon afterwards and objecting to a court ruling in a disrespectful manner. Id., pp. 36, 37. With a few exceptions, Id., pp. 48, 49, 51, all went well until the examination of Dale Brandfast and Arthur Gomes. These men were respectively the assistant superintendent and superintendent of the Florence prison. Whether by design or by instinct, the defendant sought to use their presence on the stand to try the prison system as a whole, including his treatment thereunder. Consequently he became increasingly argumentative, Id., pp. 86, 87, 89, 93-96 and 102, repetitious, Id., p. 95, irrelevant, Id., pp. 96, 97, and hostile to objections of the prosecution to these traits of his inquiry, Id., pp. 85, 90. Having admonished the defendant repeatedly, the court finally excused the jury and warned him not to argue with the witness. In the ensuing conversation appellant refused to give the court a straight answer, interrupted the court as it was advising him, indicated that his own perceived harassment in prison justified the scope of his examination, and in a disrespectful manner agreed to follow the court's instructions. 6 At this point the court ordered that he be taken from the courtroom. 46 b) Analysis. 47 These events need not delay us long, for they raise no novel issue. The later record on March 13 illustrates the same propensities and the same deficiencies that the defendant showed on March 6 and 7 and before his second exit. Without condoning appellant's behavior in the least, we again find no sign that it was Not associated with the speaking role he chose to play; hence, that there is no sufficient showing he could not have remained peacefully in the courtroom if relieved of that role. 48