Erick Orlando Locks v. G.W. Sumner, Warden, California State Prison at San Quentin

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a criminal 14 defendant takes a “substantial risk…when he elects to waive his right to counsel”
• “the inquiry by the judge must be viewed in light of the context in which it was made, not in isolation”
• “[T]he inquiry by the judge must be viewed in light of the context in which it was made, not in isolation.”
• “If the right to co-counsel is not of constitutional dimension, we fail to 14 see why the right to advisory counsel should be afforded higher status.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).