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Eighth Circuit· 8/24/1994

Fred A. Hamilton v. Michael Groose

Citations

  • 28 F.3d 859

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  • concluding that the petitioner’s request to represent himself was equivocal where he used ambiguous language and told the trial judge that he was “not very serious about wanting to represent” himself and that he was “not asking to proceed pro se totally”
  • acknowledging that a defendant’s waiver of his right to counsel may be “both conditional and unequivocal,” and recognizing that such a waiver would be sufficient to invoke the right to self- representation under Faretta

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Judges: Bowman, Hansen, Arnold

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