State v. GUNCHES

How courts have described this case

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• explaining the standard for a gray-area defendant to waive counsel is “an issue we need not decide here”
• stating we view the facts and evidence in a light most favorable to sustaining the verdict
• finding insufficient evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, who shot victim four times, knew or should have known that he had already fired a fatal shot and yet continued to inflict violence
• evidence that victim was still breathing before final shots were fired supported finding that defendant did not knowingly inflict gratuitous violence by firing final shots
• “[A] mentally incompetent defendant cannot validly waive the right to counsel.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).