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BACKGROUND

1. Pretrial Motions Before defendant‟s Faretta3 waiver and election to represent himself, his attorney made a pretrial motion for discovery of the personnel records of Los Angeles Police Department Officers Mejia, and Valencia, and of Detectives Miller, Baley and Reyes. The trial court denied the motion. After defendant executed a Faretta waiver and the court granted his request to represent himself, defendant made a number of motions. He moved to suppress the evidence against him, on the basis police submitted false reports and planted evidence. That motion was denied. Next, defendant requested a ruling on a motion for severance which had been filed by his attorney. The motion was denied. When defendant asked why the motion was denied, the trial court responded, “I don‟t believe you‟ve given sufficient basis to grant the severance.” When defendant asked about oral argument, the trial court responded, “I don‟t need any oral argument.” There appeared to be some confusion about whether defendant had waived time for trial. On January 31, 2011, the trial court indicated defendant had not waived time for trial, and set trial for February 1, 2011. However, on February 1,…