What are a judge’s obligations to pro se litigants, if any?
It does appear there are more pro se litigants than in the past at the appellate level and sometimes at the trial level. Obviously, the old notion that a person representing himself or herself has a fool for a lawyer doesn’t seem to apply in this modern age. Few pro se litigants do very well. Many of them end up removing any chance they might have had of a favorable result by their own ineptitude.
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