King v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"[King]: Well, let me ask you this at this time: Suppose I was just to give up my rights to be my counsel and request counsel? "THE COURT: Well, I'm not going to do that now, because we're at the point of the trial [when] we've gone to go get jurors. And I'm not going to let you get a continuance by doing that now. I've been through that before, and I know how that works. You have elected to try your case yourself. That decision was made a long time ago. You did it knowingly. And now we're going to go to trial. "Now, I'm not going to—if you want to play games with the Court, then you can play them with the appellate courts and play your--if you've got tricks you want to play, you can play it on them. But we're going to go to trial on this. And I can let you take it up with the appellate courts. Maybe I can get one of them to come down there and try this case. But this case is going to be tried. We're going to start trying it today. We're going to strike a jury today. " You wanted to try the case yourself, so that's what we're doing. You had very competent attorneys to represent you. You didn't like them. You fired them. And now you are representing yourself. Apparently, you did a pretty good job because you got this case reversed by the Court of Criminal Appeals. So you've got their ear anyway. "[King]: Like I say, I have no problem with myself. I'm just wondering if the Court—has the Court purposefully designed it, because I want to—I'm going to defend myself in this matter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte King

2. “[King]: Well, I know that the Judge cautioned me about this proceeding, but I would like to go on the record as saying here at this time before I convey to the jury what I expect the evidence to show—I labored with this some time last night. And at this time I want to go on record as saying that I want to assert my right to counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte King

3. “to give the trial court an opportunity to clarify whether”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte King