Adams v. Morial

How courts have described this case

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• defendant’s attorney informed court that defendant wanted to exercise right to examine jurors without attorney’s participation
• the trial court “may appropriately presume that defense counsel has explained the nature of the offense in sufficient detail”
• “[o]nce it is determined that there has been a constitutionally valid waiver of counsel, a defendant cannot be denied his right to try his own case simply because of some insubstantial nonconformity with [Practice Book § 44-3]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).