Jerome Williams v. George Bartlett, Howard R. Relin, Monroe County District Attorney, Intervenor-Respondent-Appellee

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• holding that a defendant's \desire to exchange one mandatory counsel for another . . . does not signify that he was abandoning his Sixth Amendment right to have none\
• “[A] defendant is not deemed to have equivocated in his desire for self-representation merely because he expresses that view in the alternative[.]”
• in the criminal context, “[t]he right to self-representation does not attach until it is asserted ‘clearly and unequivocally.’”

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