Butler v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the defendant was adequately advised of his right to counsel and knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his right
• holding that a trial court’s constant reaffirming that defendant understood rights and would be forfeiting them comported with due process requirements for probation revocation
• holding that the defendant’s waiver of counsel was knowing and voluntary where “[t]he record shows that the trial court advised [defendant] of his right to counsel and that [defendant] unequivocally waived that right”
• noting probationer’s extensive experience with the criminal justice system as supporting its conclusion that he knowingly waived his right to counsel
• affirming 3 imposition of balance of suspended sentence based on defendant’s criminal history and prior unsuccessful probation
• concluding waiver of counsel was knowing, intelligent, and voluntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Timothy Hammerlund v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-05-17· cited 8×
• State v. Vickers
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-02-21· cited 1×
• State of Indiana v. Christopher Vickers
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-02-21
• Terral Lerron Golden v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-12-09
• Robert E. Inman v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-03-27
• Richard K. Dean v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-06-15
• Timothy Davis v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-08-29
• Jacob Maden v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-08-02
• Michael Laroy McCullough, Jr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-10-10
• Chad A. Phipps v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-11-19
• William Terpstra v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-12-11
• Dale M. Thomas v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-05-01
• Taylor Marshall v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-05-06
• Jeffrey Sparks v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-09-17
• Scott Lee Van Hawk v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2026-02-06
• Michael C Davis v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2026-03-23

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Prewitt v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-12-18· cited 592×
• Cox v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-07-13· cited 53×
• Kubsch v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-05-22· cited 51×
• Cooper v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-01-29· cited 26×
• Greer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-01-27· cited 20×
• Redington v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1997-03-27· cited 16×
• David Hopper v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2010-09-28· cited 11×