Overview

• Routh formally filed a motion on July 10 to waive his right to counsel and serve as his own attorney in the Florida federal case
• Judge Aileen Cannon considered the self-representation request at a hearing but has not yet issued a ruling
• Prosecutors are pressing the court to exclude decades-old and irrelevant documents that Routh submitted as evidence
• Routh’s charges were upgraded from initial gun offenses to an attempted assassination count following his arrest last September
• Cannon has ordered Routh’s public defenders to remain involved until she decides on his bid to represent himself