State v. Madsen’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “CP at 22. The first witness for trial was actually called on May 8, 2006. ¶ 10 Madsen was convicted and received an 18 month sentence on August 9, 2006. The Court of Appeals upheld Madsen's conviction. State v. Madsen, noted at 143 Wash.App. 1028 , 2008 WL 625282 . Madsen petitioned this court, and we granted review. [1] ANALYSIS ¶ 11 Criminal defendants have an explicit right to self-representation under the Washington Constitution and an implicit right under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. WASH. CONST. art. I, § 22 (”

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   e.g. State v. Madsen

2. “Id. at 8. Madsen also tried to argue several substantive points and interrupted the court on several occasions. ¶ 5 The trial court expressed concern that Madsen's true motive was to fire counsel, not necessarily to proceed pro se, and suggested an intermediate step of assigning new counsel. Madsen replied,”

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   e.g. State v. Madsen

3. “Id. ¶ 4 On March 7, 2006, the trial court held a hearing to consider Madsen's motion to proceed pro se or in the alternative to terminate his counsel's representation. VRP (Mar. 7, 2006) at 3. Madsen stated several reasons why he did not want to be represented by his then-counsel and concluded,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Madsen