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UNITED STATES EX REL. SMITH v. PAVICH

No. 77-1408.

568 F.2d 33 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Clifford SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. M. J. PAVICH, Supervisor, Peoria Work Release Center, and the Illinois Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Hoskins, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Gerri Papushkewych, Asst. Atty. Gen., Springfield, Ill., for respondents-appellees.

Before SPRECHER and TONE, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.

SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

When a defendant is accorded his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments' right to self-representation, may he thereafter complain that the quality of his own defense amounted to a denial of "effective assistance of counsel?"

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The defendant1 was indicted by an Illinois grand jury on July 13, 1973, for intimidation in violation of Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 38, § 12-6, and for communicating with a witness...

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