C.S., the Mother v. Department of Children & Families

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• recognizing that the record of the plea proceedings may contradict any subsequent claim that counsel’s representation was deficient
• noting that “[w]hen a defendant preempts his attorney’s defense strategy, he thereafter cannot claim ineffective assistance of counsel”
• stating although the defendant need not “recite some talismanic formula,” he must “state his request [to proceed pro se], either orally or in writing, unambiguously to the court so that no reasonable person can say that the request was not made”
• “Unavoidable influence or pressure from sources such as codefendants, friends or family does not make a plea involuntary.’’
• “An attorney’s responsibility is to investigate and to evaluate his client’s options in the course of the subject legal proceedings and then to advise the client as to the merits of each.”
• “By pleading guilty, a defendant waives several constitutional rights, including the Fifth Amendment privilege against compulsory self-incrimination and the Sixth Amendment rights to a jury trial and to confrontation of one’s accusers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).