City of Kansas v. Kansas City Belt Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the federal distinction between a “structural defect” and a “trial error,” and holding that denial of a defendant’s right to self-representation is a “structural defect”
• applying the federal distinction between a “structural defect” and a “trial error”
• describing the right to counsel and the right to self-representation as “antithetical”
• trial court committed structural error by providing unwanted representation to defendant who had unequivocally waived his right to counsel
• State conceded issue at oral argument on appeal and therefore we were “foreclosed” from considering it
• “When trial courts have an opportunity to rule on issues and to correct errors before they are presented to the appellate court, the preservation requirement is satisfied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).