even in the recent affirmative conviction by the 4th circuit court of appeals because the opinion suggeffed had he not pleaded guilty he might have entitled to access to a great deal of sensitive information to call other detainees as witnesses and turn the trial, as he did the sentencing proceeding, into a circus. that lesson has been learned by mohamed and the others scheduled to be tried in new york. kfm, as he's known, said he wanted to plead guilty when he thought he was going to be before a military commission where the opportunity for street theater is relatively limited, particularly in a guilt phase and instead to get right to the sentencing phase. but when he heard that he was going to be tried in a civilian court, he immediately changed his mind, decided that he was not going plead guilty and go to trial. i would suggest that that may have been in large measure because he knows that included in his constitutional right to a lawyer is a constitutional right to represent himself. as he chooses to do that, he will have access to all of the information that a lawyer would have a