Oscar Reyes Luna, Jr. v. the State of Texas

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• recognizing that the right to assistance of counsel developed long ago under the common law
• recognizing that the right of self-representation is not a license to not comply with the relevant procedural rules
• holding that a defendant has a constitutional right to proceed pro se in a criminal trial
• holding that the Sixth Amendment right to an attorney is part of the “due process of law” that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from infringing
• holding that, before a defendant may waive his Sixth Amendment right to counsel, a defendant “should be made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation”
• holding that a defendant has the constitutional right to waive assistance of counsel and represent himself

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).