Court Opinion

ID: 9816588
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 03:22:11.002891+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:25.534777
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STAPLETON, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I would reverse the judgment of the District Court and remand for a new trial for two reasons. First, under the teachings of United States v. Stubbs, 281 F.3d 109 (3d Cir.2002), appellant’s waiver of counsel was not knowingly and intelligently made. Second, it was prejudicial error to permit the government to read to the jury from Justice Blackmun’s dissenting opinion in Cheek v. United States, 498 U.S. 192, 111 S.Ct. 604, 112 L.Ed.2d 617 (1991).