No. 19-6266

Willie Jones, Jr. v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-10-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: conflict-among-courts constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct dilatory-purpose dilatory-purposes faretta-right faretta-v-california federal-courts self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-self-representation state-courts
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2019-11-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Faretta claim conflict with Faretta v. California?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), a defendant in a criminal case has a virtually inviolable right under the Sixth Amendment to represent himself at trial. The Court in Faretta enumerated only two exceptions to this rule. First, the defendant “must knowingly and intelligently” decide to “relinquish[] . . . many of the traditional benefits associated with the right to counsel.” 422 U.S. at 834. And second, and perhaps most importantly here, “the trial judge may terminate self-representation by a defendant who deliberately engages in serious and obstructionist misconduct.” Id. at 834 n.46. The question presented is as follows: Did the Ninth Circuit’s disposition of Petitioner’s Faretta claim, which permitted the district court to deny it after determining that Petitioner had asserted it solely for dilatory purposes, conflict not only with Faretta itself, which had not enumerated that exception, but also opinions from at least one of its sister federal court of appeals and several state supreme courts?

Docket Entries

2019-11-12
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
2019-10-18
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2019-10-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 12, 2019)

Attorneys

United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Willie Jones
David Andrew Schlesinger Jr.Jacobs & Schlesinger LLP, Petitioner
David Andrew Schlesinger Jr.Jacobs & Schlesinger LLP, Petitioner