Brinkley had confessed to being the ferry shooter, and he'd refused counsel.
The crazy loon constantly misquoted scripture, insisted that he heard God's voice every day at noon on the dot, and refused counsel.
He refused counsel, and refused to or was unable to elaborate.
In his experience it wasn't the innocent man who refused counsel, it was the man with something on his conscience he wanted to unload.
O'grady has been advised of his rights and has refused counsel.
"When have I ever refused counsel?"
"It is one thing to refuse counsel," said she.
"Bill, witness that Mr. Klein was offered and refused legal counsel."
Currently, they are refused basic services, such as interpreting or legal counsel.
Also, in the course of one of the trials the defendants refused counsel as they believed that "all lawyers were against Muslims".