United States Fifth Circuit

Faretta violations caused by a defective waiver of the right to counsel, even at the sentencing stage, are so fundamentally violative of due process that such error is harmful per se.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/28/2006
• Published 03/28/2006

Judges

• EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE, STEWART and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Terrell Starrett, Asst. U.S Atty., Jackson, MS, for U.S., Julie Ann Epps, Canton, MS, for Virgil.