The colorful loon accused of stalking R&B singer Ashanti with crude text messages has decided to represent himself at his upcoming trial in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“You’re a team. You’re the quarterback, he’s the running back,” Judge Charles Solomon explained to Devar Hurd Thursday of the relationship he’d now have with his lawyer who will only serve as an advisor.
“Yeah, I get it, I’m the quarterback, it’s like the Super Bowl,” he replied, nonchalantly.
Hurd was convicted in 2010 for sending crotch cellphone pics to the songstress through her mom.
He was re-arrested last July for sending “explicit” tweets to Ashanti from two accounts and posing at a party with her little sister despite orders of protection barring communication with the singer and her family.
Solomon tried to persuade the former sound technician from representing himself but Hurd insisted that the court was perpetrating a conspiracy against him.
“Why do you think he wouldn’t do his job?” Solomon asked of Hurd’s third court appointed lawyer Glenn Hardy.
“Maybe he feels he wants to sell me out, for the state, for you, I don’t know,” Hurd responded. “He doesn’t represent me the way I want, he doesn’t go to bat the way he’s supposed to.”
Next Wednesday pretrial hearings are expected to begin in Hurd’s case, which he described in court as “nonsense” and “garbage.”
At previous court appearances, Hurd criticized the seasoned judge for his ignorance of Twitter and jurisdictional law, unsuccessfully demanding a new jurist.