Detroit, Michigan (CNN) -- A court hearing Thursday for Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab will be the first one since the suspect, accused of a Christmas attempted terror attack, decided to fire his lawyers and represent himself.
The morning pretrial hearing in Michigan comes after a federal judge delayed court proceedings for about a month to give AbdulMutallab time to prepare his legal defense.
In September, AbdulMutallab decided that he no longer wanted to be represented by federal defenders and would act as his own attorney.
Judge Nancy Edmunds granted his request and appointed standby counsel for him.
AbdulMutallab, the British-educated son of a Nigerian bank executive, is accused of trying to set off a bomb hidden in his underwear aboard a plane from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, on December 25.
At the hearing in September, he spoke softly but clearly about what he wanted.
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