DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.
The trial court's determination that the defendant was financially able to afford counsel, born of inadequate inquiry and nourished only by repetition, led to its inexorable refusal to appoint counsel for the defendant, and, thereafter, the defendant's counselless and otherwise unknowing and unintelligent waiver of jury trial, which leads us now to reverse the defendant's convictions.
Between November 14, 1979, the date of Castro...
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