Clarke v. Zant

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that under the Sixth Amendment, waiver of the right to counsel requires both the “comprehension of rights” and the “relinquishment of rights”
• trial judge has “the serious and weighty responsibility” of determining whether defendant intelligently waived his right to counsel
• trial judge has \the serious and weighty responsibility\ of determining whether defendant intelligently waived his right to counsel
• trial court appointed attorney to assist pro se defendant in representing himself
• “the record should reflect a finding on the part of the trial court that the defendant has validly chosen to proceed pro se” and “that this choice was made after the defendant was made aware of his right to counsel and the dangers of proceeding without counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).