Greg Berry v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Greg Berry v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that waiver of right to counsel was invalid despite the fact that defendant had some college education, had prior experience with criminal justice system, and did “reasonable job” handling own case because court failed to advise him of perils of proceeding pro se
• “A defendant has no right to manipulate his right to counsel in order to delay or disrupt the trial.”
• “Outright denial of counsel cannot be harmless error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).