Cason v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “We concede that a full Faretta inquiry was never made to this defendant, however, we have assiduously examined this record and find from first to last the defendant never made an unequivocal request to do other than act as co-counsel with his court-appointed attorney. Consequently, a Faretta hearing was never triggered.... When the record is read as a whole and not as statements taken completely out of context, there is simply no basis for the claim that the defendant wanted to act other than as co-counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 703 So. 2d 504 - Brooks v. State