Rentas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that although a defendant may file a petition for writ of mandamus compelling a trial court to rule on an “unequivocal request for self-representation[,]” there is no “right to nonfinal review of a trial court’s ruling on a request for self- representation.”
• “[The defendant] is not entitled to nonfinal review of the trial court’s ruling on the self-representation issue.”
• “Generally, a criminal defendant is not entitled to hybrid representation; that is, he may not represent himself, while at the same time being represented by counsel.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Loor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-03-07
• DAVID JAMES LOLA v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2021-11-10

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Logan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-17· cited 223×
• Sheppard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-08-27· cited 113×
• McCray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-07-07· cited 73×