Coonce v. State

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• under ordinary circumstances, where not required by statute and the defendant possesses ordinary intelligence and is under no duress, the trial court need not inform the defendant of the right to testify
• where the “witness” was a defendant representing himself

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).