United States v. Hantzis

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• looking to record as a whole to determine whether defendant's waiver was knowing and intelligent
• “A properly conducted Faretta colloquy need not be renewed in subsequent proceedings unless intervening events substantially change the circumstances existing at the time of the initial colloquy.”
• “The essential inquiry is whether circumstances have sufficiently changed since the date of the Faretta inquiry that the defendant can no longer be considered to have knowingly and intelligently waived the right to counsel”
• the trial court was not required to conduct a new Faretta colloquy at subse quent hearings where, among other things, “there is nothing in the record to suggest that any changes occurred ... that would have affected [the defendant’s] understanding of the charges or penalties against him”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).