Police Benevolent Ass'n of New York State Police, Inc. v. Helsby

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• holding defendant’s claim of structural error in the improper denial of his right to self-representation was waived by his voluntary guilty plea
• courts have “repeatedly rejected” sovereign citizens’ “theories of individual sovereignty, immunity from prosecution, and their ilk”
• “[A] defendant’s voluntary guilty plea may waive a claim even of structural error.”

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