Deshannon Fitzgerald v. Pamela Withrow, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• stating that neither an oral colloquy, nor any other particular form of waiver, is required for a valid waiver of jury trial as a matter of federal constitutional law
• explaining that courts “have required elaborate conditions for [a jury] waiver to be valid”
• finding no constitutional right to a trial before a particular judge
• a defendant is not entitled to make a limited or conditional waiver of his right to a jury trial
• constitution does not require a jury waiver take any particular form
• constitution does not require a jury waiver take any particular form

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).