California Court of Appeal

Conviction of corporal injury to a cohabitant, Pen. Code section 273.5(a), and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, section 245(a)(4), with true findings of two prior strikes and prison terms, is reversed where defendant's request for self-representation was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary and his signed Faretta form was invalid.

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• Published 2017/06/06

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• WILLHITE

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• California Court of Appeal

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