California Supreme Court
Dec. 7, 2011
Justices grapple with standards for self-representation for mentally ill
The state Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with how to apply a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing courts to disqualify mentally ill defendants from acting as their own lawyers.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with how to apply a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing courts to disqualify mentally ill defendants who seek to act as their own lawyers.
California courts have long allowed criminal defendants to represent themselves as long as they are found competent to stand trial. But in 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court invited states to set a higher bar for those defend...
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