McCray v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the trial court could deny defendant’s request to proceed pro se and require that counsel represent uncooperative defendant who had history of disrupting the proceedings
• holding that a hearing under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), is unnecessary when a defendant makes an ambiguous statement about self-representation rather than an unequivocal request for self-representation
• noting that “what matters is not the words the trial court employs but rather that the record reflects a defendant who makes a knowing and voluntary waiver of counsel” (internal quotations 16 omitted)
• holding Muhammad did not apply where the defendant “did not waive all mitigation”
• upholding court’s competency finding where court held a brief competency hearing at which no witnesses were presented, however the parties stipulated to competence and the court relied on the reports received.
• addressing the physical removal of a criminal defendant, during trial, from the courtroom

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

63 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bernard J. Dougherty v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-10-16· cited 152×
• Delhall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-07-12· cited 65×
• Ronald Pak Zern v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-05-12· cited 49×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-10-17· cited 28×
• Robert L. Rumph v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-04-13· cited 22×
• Deferrell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-08-17· cited 21×
• Leo Louis Kaczmar, III v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-01-31· cited 20×
• Lambrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-06-27· cited 19×
• Laramee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-15· cited 19×
• Kalisz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-10-17· cited 16×
• Hernandez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-03-20· cited 15×
• David Kelsey Sparre v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-01-22· cited 14×
• Gregory David Larkin v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-05-22· cited 11×
• & SC14-567 Ronald Knight v. State of Florida & Ronald Knight v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-12-15· cited 11×
• Kevin G. Jeffries, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-07-13· cited 11×
• Cravelyn Hooker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-12-10· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-07-01· cited 8×
• Neal v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-20· cited 8×
• Travis Washington v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-03-18· cited 7×
• Hilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-03-21· cited 7×