Whether a pre-trial request for self-representation under Faretta v. California is timely

QUESTION PRESENTED 1. Whether, as the majority of jurisdictions hold, a request for selfrepresentation under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), is timely if made prior to trial, or whether instead, as California and a handful of other jurisdictions maintain, even a pre-trial Faretta request can be held to be “untimely” based on a “totality of the circumstances” test? ii RELATED CASES e People v. William Lee Wright, Jr., No. KA048285-01, California Superior Court, Los Angeles County, Judgment entered June 14, 2002 e People v. William Lee Wright, Jr., No. S107900, Supreme Court of California. Judgment entered December 16, 2021; modified on denial of rehearing March 9, 2022 iii