This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Monday, February 12, 2018.

I'm Keelib Brown.

Imagine that you're on trial for murder

and you want to go for total exoneration.

Your attorney says, no, we must admit your guilt, and the court

refuses to let you fire your attorney, and your attorney, as planned, says you are in fact guilty of the crimes in court.

This is the case the Supreme Court is tackling this term.

Cato's Jay Schweichert comments.

So Mr. McCoy was charged with three murders in 2008.

The victims were his mother, stepfather, and the son of Mr McCoy's estranged wife.

This was in Bosure City, Louisiana.

Mr McCoy, throughout the entire case, all the proceedings maintained his complete

innocence he said that he was actually out of the state at the time of the murders

he was originally appointed some public defenders

and I'll say this he was charged. This was a capital case.

The prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

He was originally appointed public defenders,

but there was, he had a conflict with them

because they didn't want to support his subpoenas

for witnesses that he said would support his alibi defense.

So he eventually dismissed them.

And then he was qualified by the court to represent himself.

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