United States Fifth Circuit

Even "hybrid" representation, which involves the defendant acting as his own attorney at certain points in the trial, while his attorney continues to represent him in other aspects, involves a waiver of the Sixth Amendment and the trial judge must provide a Faretta warning.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2001
• Published 10/04/2001

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS and JONES, Circuit Judges, and BARBOUR, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Tony Ray Roberts (argued), James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Richard Edward Banks (argued), Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.