United States v. Clayton R. Page, III

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• holding, although the defendant neither signed a written waiver nor made any affirmative statement to the court regarding waiver, his waiver was valid because, among other reasons, he was a “learned, articulate man suffering neither language nor perceptive difficulty”
• finding invited error when “[n]either Page nor his counsel ever objected at trial or requested a new trial, waiting instead until now to urge correction of this oversight”
• rejecting claim that waiver was invalid in part because the defendant was a “highly educated and articulate man,” who must have understood his lawyer’s waiver and demonstrated no objection or surprise when the waiver was made
• judge said in defendant’s presence that he understood defendant to be waiving right to jury
• waiver valid where it was communicated by defense counsel to the court in chambers and later reaffirmed by the attorney on the record in defendant’s presence
• judge said in defendant’s presence that he understood defendant to be waiving right to jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).