Bloomberg Law
May 6, 2016, 8:05 PM UTC

Lawyer Charged in $245 Million Fraud Wants to Defend Himself

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By Rebecca Spalding, Bloomberg News

It’s been said that a person who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. Stephen DiCarmine, a former executive of the bankrupt law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, wants to test that old maxim.

Despite having never sat through a criminal trial except his own, let alone tried one himself, DiCarmine, who graduated from law school more than 30 years ago, told a judge that he wants to represent himself in his upcoming court case.

DiCarmine and former colleague Joel Sanders are accused of lying to investors in the run-up to their firm’s May 2012 bankruptcy that left ...

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