State v. Staley

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• holding that failure to object amounts to a waiver of claim on appeal (citations omitted).
• holding that trial court's failure to elicit from defendant an on-the-record waiver of his right to testify was plain error, where defense counsel, not defendant, waived right to testify
• holding that the circuit court's failure to establish on the record that defendant’s decision not to testify was made knowingly and voluntarily constituted plain error
• concluding that the defendant's substantial rights were not affected by the trial court’s minor omission in reading a jury instruction in a case where a set of written instructions was provided to the jury
• concluding based on this court’s independent review of the record that the defendant’s constitutional right to testify was violated
• holding it was plain error for trial court to fail to engage defendant in a colloquy prior to accepting defendant's waiver of fundamental right to testify

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