City of Youngstown v. Arnold

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• noting that defendant's lack of confusion about what he wanted supported sufficiency of inquiry
• Noting that the United States Supreme Court “ha[s] not * * * prescribed any formula or script to be read to a defendant who states that he elects to proceed without counsel.”
• finding no deliberate elicitation where informant and defendant were placed in same cell without government involvement and defendant “volunteered” information
• rejecting defendant’s argument that he could not be convicted of kidnapping as victim had “died before being restrained” where evidence showed that defendant “hogtied and carried him to the basement” while still alive
• upholding death sentence despite the fact that defendant was diagnosed with alcohol dependence and personality disorders and had consumed thirty-two ounces of hard liquor or distilled wine as well as various amounts of crack cocaine and marijuana
• wherein Supreme Court recognized defendant's lack of confusion as supportive of sufficiency of trial court's inquiry

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