Commonwealth v. Hawkins

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant bore burden of establishing that waiver of counsel and acquiescence in arrangement for standby counsel were not knowing and intelligent
• presumption of waiver attached where defendant had been advised of his right to counsel, had fired two different appointed counsel, and had acquiesced to have standby counsel assist him during trial.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Romero
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1985-01-21· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Pena
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-05-09· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Stovall
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-10-03· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Higgins
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-02-25· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-03-04· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Wolf
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-06-10· cited 6×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ronald Maynard v. Larry Meachum
  First Circuit· 1976-11-19· cited 213×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-12-28· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-02· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. MacDonald (No. 1)
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-07-22· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-24· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-06-08· cited 48×
• First National Bank v. Judge Baker Guidance Center
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-02-05· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Pasciuti
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-12-28· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-02-25· cited 2×