State v. Frampton

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a defendant must understand \the relative advantages and disadvantages of self-representation in a particular situation \ (emphasis added) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that \a defendant who elects to represent himself cannot thereafter complain that the quality of his own defense amounted to a denial of 'effective assistance of counsel' \
• stating that, for the waiver to be knowing and intelligently made, a defendant must understand \the relative advantages and disadvantages of self-representation in a particular situation\ (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• concluding when a defendant “expressly decline[s] an offer of counsel by the trial judge, he has the burden of showing by a preponderance of the evidence that he did not so waive this right”
• stating that colloquy on record insures defendants understand risks of self-representation
• noting a \best practice\ colloquy for making \clear on the record\ that waiver is knowing and voluntary in a criminal case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).