Supreme Court of California

In an action involving a criminal defendant's waiver of right to counsel, court of appeal's judgment is reversed where the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant's midtrial request to revoke his Faretta waiver of counsel, particularly considering defendant's failure to articulate a compelling reason for revoking the waiver and the likely delay and disruption that it would cause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/30/2009
• Published 04/30/2009

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert S. Gerstein, Los Angeles, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Heather J. Manolakas, Santa Monica, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Lawrence M. Daniels, Lauren E. Dana, Kristofer Jorstad and Steven D. Matthews, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.