James D. Wilson v. Hans Walker, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility

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• holding that petitioner abandoned initial request where he subsequently had two different lawyers appointed and did not assert right again after question of self-representation had been left open for further discussion
• holding that a defendant reasonably appeared to abandon his initial request to represent himself by voicing no dissatisfaction with his attorneys and by not reasserting his desire to proceed pro se
• holding that the defendant reasonably appeared to abandon his initial request to represent himself by voicing no dissatisfaction with his attorneys and by not reasserting his desire to proceed pro se
• holding that petitioner abandoned initial request where he subsequently had two dif ferent lawyers appointed and did not assert right again after question of self-representation had been left open for further discussion
• holding that request to proceed pro se was abandoned when defendant did not again raise motion in later proceedings dealing with change of counsel and court had the impression that the issue was still open
• stating that a defendant need not continually reassert his request to proceed pro se in order “to avoid waiver of a previously invoked right to self-representation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).