SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein will represent himself after he was indicted on charges of tax fraud and false statements to a lender in January, according to court filings.
After Goldstein was arrested on Monday for violating his conditions of bond, the US District Court for the District of Maryland held an attorney inquiry hearing and issued an order of detention. The order of detention said a separate order will follow on Goldstein’s “decision to represent himself in this case.”
He’d said that he couldn’t afford to pay counsel, short of leveraging the equity in his marital residence—a property the government ...