No. 24-5815

Joseph S. Addison v. Tim Shoop, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-10-24
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2024-12-13
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a defendant can be denied their Sixth Amendment right to self-representation when they have clearly and unequivocally invoked such right

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED ~ 1. What bright line indicates whether a defendant has clearly and unequivocally invoked their right to conduct their own defense? 2. Cana trial-court refuse to allow a defendant to conduct their own defense, when a defendant has clearly and unequivocally invoked their right to do so? . 3. Has a defendant lost his right to if appellate court claimed that he acquiesced to counsel, even though trial-court forced him to have counsel in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to represent himself? : 4. Musta defendant persist in a request to represent himself, once he has clearly and unequivocally invoked his right to ;

Docket Entries

2024-12-16
Petition DENIED.
2024-11-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2024.
2024-11-22
Waiver of right of respondent Tim Shoop, Warden to respond filed.
2024-10-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 25, 2024)

Attorneys

Joseph S. Addison
Joseph S. Addison — Petitioner
Joseph S. Addison — Petitioner
Tim Shoop, Warden
Thomas Elliot GaiserOffice of the Ohio Attorney General, Respondent
Thomas Elliot GaiserOffice of the Ohio Attorney General, Respondent