United States v. One 1931 Ford Sedan Automobile

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a written waiver stating that the defendant was “aware of the help a lawyer might be to me” was insufficient
• applying that test for harmless error in a case in which there was a failure to show that defendant knowingly waived her right to counsel
• noting that “the current text of that stat- ute * * * appears to impose on the trial court obligations similar to those imposed under the state and federal constitutions when a defendant wishes to waive the right to counsel”
• applying harmless error test in context of trial court’s error in allow- ing the defendant to proceed without counsel
• noting that, “because we are unable to tell what the outcome of defendant’s case would have been if she had been represented by counsel, we conclude that the trial court’s error in allowing defendant to proceed without counsel was not harmless”
• written waiver stating that defendant was “aware of the help a law- yer might be to me” was insufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).