Tuesday, July 10, 2007

US V. FORRESTER
(U.S. 9th Circuit) - Defendants' convictions and sentences for various offenses relating to the operation of a large Ecstasy-manufacturing laboratory are reversed in part as to one defendant where a district court's omission and misstatement with regard to the charge and potential prison term meant that defendant's waiver of his right to counsel was not knowing and intelligent, and that the Sixth Amendment was violated when he was allowed to proceed pro se. The conviction of another defendant is affirmed where the monitoring of his email and Internet activities did not constitute a search for Fourth Amendment

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