A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed drug convictions of a Savannah doctor because the judge who tried the case didn’t correct the doctor’s obvious confusion about whether he could testify on his own behalf.
The basis for the reversal was a colloquy between Hung Thien Ly, who lost his bid for court-appointed counsel and represented himself at trial, and U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr.
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