Luther Cain v. Howard Peters and Roland Burris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that waiver of the right to self-representation, after asserted, is a fact-specific issue and subject to a presumption of correctness
• holding that a defendant can chose between the “equivalent” rights to court- appointed counsel and to self-representation, but that “the defendant is entitled to choose without a thumb on the scale”
• stating that \~ 2254(d) is no less applicable to findings by appellate courts than to findings by trial courts\
• petitioner “waived his [previously asserted] right to conduct his own defense by remaining mute when the court appointed a new lawyer for him and not raising the subject at trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).