State v. Gethers

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant’s attorney informed court that defendant wanted to exercise right to examine jurors without attorney’s participation
• the trial court “may appropriately presume that defense counsel has explained the nature of the offense in sufficient detail”
• “[o]nce it is determined that there has been a constitutionally valid waiver of counsel, a defendant cannot be denied his right to try his own case simply because of some insubstantial nonconformity with [Practice Book § 44-3]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-07-30· cited 214×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-11-16· cited 194×
• State v. Leecan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-02-04· cited 192×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-09-07· cited 172×
• Parren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-04-06· cited 135×
• Phillips v. Warden
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-08-13· cited 128×
• Johnson v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1995-01-31· cited 113×
• State v. Day
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-06-27· cited 107×
• State v. Thurman
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1987-03-31· cited 96×
• State v. Gethers
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-09-03· cited 82×
• State v. Medina
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-01-18· cited 80×
• Sekou v. Warden
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-12-25· cited 73×
• State v. Connor
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-07-14· cited 66×
• State v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-12-29· cited 66×
• State v. D'Antonio
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-08-02· cited 65×
• State v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-01-05· cited 62×
• State v. Wolff
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-07-09· cited 62×
• State v. Watson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-02-11· cited 56×
• Rowe v. Godou
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1987-11-03· cited 55×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-03-04· cited 46×

Cites

53 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Brady v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 7,191×
• Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-04· cited 2,192×
• Carnley v. Cochran
  Supreme Court· 1962-04-30· cited 1,897×
• Von Moltke v. Gillies
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 1,645×
• Henderson v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 1,382×
• Avery v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1940-01-02· cited 706×
• Wold v. Wold
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 312×
• United States v. Welty, John Jacob
  Third Circuit· 1982-03-02· cited 263×
• Thomas McKee v. David Harris, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Stormville, New York
  Second Circuit· 1981-05-28· cited 231×
• United States v. Joseph Calabro
  Second Circuit· 1972-09-21· cited 215×
• Ronald Maynard v. Larry Meachum
  First Circuit· 1976-11-19· cited 213×
• People v. Anderson
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1976-12-21· cited 187×
• Barham v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-20· cited 152×
• William Brown, Jr. v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1959-02-05· cited 147×
• Diorio v. Kreisler-Borg Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-30· cited 126×
• State v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-03-30· cited 121×
• State v. Scielzo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-05-24· cited 113×
• State v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1978-02-28· cited 109×