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STATE v. SHANK

No. 82-K-0308.

410 So.2d 232 (1982)

STATE of Louisiana v. Bryan Jerome SHANK.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard Knapp, Jr., Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-relator.

Richard P. Ieyoub, Skipper M. Drost, Lake Charles, for defendant-respondent.

PER CURIAM.

Writ granted. The trial court ruling that defendant may proceed to defend himself in this capital murder case is reversed. A defendant has a federal constitutional right of self-representation and may proceed to defend himself without counsel when he voluntarily and intelligently elects to do so. Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975). In the present case, however, unlike Faretta...

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