State v. Shank

How courts have described this case

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• In situation where record reflects defendant wanted to be convicted of murder and sentenced to death, that he was 19, had only completed school through the 8th grade and had a history of mental illness, it was error to permit the defendant to conduct his own defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Silagy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 248×
• State v. Taylor
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2002-12-20· cited 176×
• State v. Russo
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1990-08-24· cited 31×
• Chapman v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-04-21· cited 28×
• State v. Shank
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1984-02-27· cited 17×
• State v. O'Meara
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1985-12-11

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-04· cited 2,192×