ALBANY – Trial judges must do more than caution criminal defendants that they might be convicted if they insist on representing themselves to ensure that their waiver of the right to counsel is “knowing, intelligent and voluntary,” the state Court of Appeals decided yesterday.
The Court unanimously ordered a new trial for one defendant and, in an unrelated case, a new suppression hearing for another, after determining that neither man was fully apprised by judges of the ramifications of acting as their own attorneys.
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