State v. Richards

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that defendant unequivocally asserted his right to self-representation when he filed two written motions demanding his right to self-representation
• concluding that a district court’s finding of invalid waiver “misapprehends the governing law and is clearly erroneous”
• noting that the validity of a defendant’s waiver of rights “‘depends, in each case, upon the particular facts and circumstances surrounding the case, including the background, experience, and conduct of the accused’” (quotation omitted)
• presuming attorney who represented defendant at waiver proceeding advised defendant so that he could make informed decision
• discussing the standard used to determine whether a waiver of the right to counsel is knowing and intelligent
• waiver of counsel intelligently made when defendant had general understanding of court protocol and rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Davido
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-02-25· cited 114×
• State v. Worthy
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-08-20· cited 109×
• State v. Blom
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-07-01· cited 103×
• State v. Richards
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-12-31· cited 86×
• State v. Camacho
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-03-20· cited 76×
• State v. Penkaty
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-01-10· cited 61×
• Carlton v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-07-18· cited 60×
• State v. Richards
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1996-07-18· cited 56×
• Dereje v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-10-09· cited 47×
• State v. Rhoads
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-05-23· cited 33×
• State v. Cassidy
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-08-14· cited 24×
• State v. Christian
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2003-02-13· cited 19×
• State v. Thornblad
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1994-03-15· cited 16×
• Holt v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2009-09-03· cited 16×
• State v. Towle
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-12-14· cited 15×
• In Re Rodriguez
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1993-10-05· cited 11×
• State v. Paige
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2009-05-12· cited 10×
• State v. Parson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1990-06-26· cited 7×
• State v. Patterson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2011-03-15· cited 6×
• State v. Nelson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1994-11-08· cited 4×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• McKaskle v. Wiggins
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,288×
• Flanagan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-21· cited 989×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-15· cited 570×
• Lewis Donald Fritz v. James Spalding
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-07-27· cited 92×
• Michael C. Tuitt v. Michael Fair, Massachusetts Commissioner of Corrections
  First Circuit· 1987-06-04· cited 88×
• Gregory Johnstone v. Walter J. Kelly, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, Respondent
  Second Circuit· 1986-12-24· cited 78×
• Joseph Anthony Meeks v. Walter Craven, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1973-07-20· cited 67×
• State v. Cermak
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-05-18· cited 59×
• State v. Bauer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1976-08-20· cited 54×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-05-26· cited 37×
• State v. Seifert
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-04-29· cited 25×
• Wiesner v. Abrams
  E.D. New York· 1989-12-04· cited 19×