Enoch F. McQueen Jr. v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary

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• court should consider the stage of the proceedings and the setting in which the waiver is advanced
• where the defendant was “cautioned that no replacement counsel would be appointed,” his insistence on the third day of trial that his present counsel be removed from his defense “was the functional equivalent of a knowing and intelligent waiver of counsel”
• appointment of standby counsel not required

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