United States Supreme Court

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in granting defendant's petition for habeas corpus based on his claim that the California courts had violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by not providing an attorney to help with his new-trial motion after he had previously waived his right to counsel on three occasions, and thus its judgment is reversed and remanded, where the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that defendant's claim was supported by "clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States."

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2013
• Published 04/01/2013

Judges

• PER CURIAM

Court

• United States Supreme Court

Counsel