United States v. James Evert Turner

How courts have described this case

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• endorsing an inquiry into \the surrounding facts and circumstances\ to determine whether a defendant knowingly and intelligently waived the right to counsel
• \[K]nowing and intelligent means only that [a defendant] was reasonably informed by the court of the hazards of self-representation and had sufficient understanding of those hazards.\
• acknowledging that “[t]he use of the word intelligent within the standard used to determine an effective waiver of counsel gives this court some pause,” but concluding that “knowingly and intelligently waiving the right to counsel is different from making a wise decision”
• \A lawyer cannot be forced upon a defendant who wishes to waive his right to counsel even if self-representation would be detrimental.\
• in which the district judge told the defendant “that he would not even represent himself in a speeding ticket” and “analogized self-representation to an untrained person performing a chiropractic procedure on himself or operating on oneself to remove cancer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).