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RAHHAL v. STATE

No. State 177.

52 Wis.2d 144 (1971)

187 N.W.2d 800

RAHHAL, Plaintiff in error, v. STATE, Defendant in error.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 25, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff in error there was a brief by Robert E. Sutton and Samson, Friebert, Sutton & Finerty, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Robert E. Sutton.

For the defendant in error the cause was argued by Thomas J. Balistreri, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief were Robert W. Warren, attoreny general, William A. Platz, assistant attoreny general, and E. Michael McCann, district attorney of Milwaukee county.

HALLOWS, C. J.

Rahhal claims he was denied his constitutional right to assistance of counsel for his defense and therefore his conviction should be reversed. It is argued that an indigent has a constitutional right to pick his own counsel at public expense. Rahhal relies on Crooker v. California (1958), 357 U.S. 433, 78 Sup. Ct. 1287, 2 L. Ed. 2d 1448, and Chandler v. Fretag...

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