Ex Parte: Angel Guadalupe Torres

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• noting defendant abandoned a motion by not asking the court to rule on that motion or objecting to court’s proceeding without ruling on that motion, despite several opportunities to do so
• “Failing to engage in a particular colloquy with a defendant, failing to warn a defendant of ‘every possible strategic consideration’ of proceeding pro se, or failing to have the defendant sign the written waiver provided for by Rule 6 is not necessarily reversible error.”
• “[A]n erroneous failure to accord a defendant his properly asserted right to represent himself when he is competent to waive counsel in a criminal case is structural error requiring reversal without a showing of prejudice.”

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