BELLEVUE v. ACREY

No. 50510-1.

103 Wn.2d 203 (1984)

691 P.2d 957

THE CITY OF BELLEVUE, Respondent, v. MAURICE C. ACREY, Petitioner. THE CITY OF BELLEVUE, Respondent, v. CYNTHIA LYNN BANDLE, Petitioner.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

December 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rigby & Jones, by Bradley B. Jones, for petitioners.

Susan R. Irwin, City Attorney, and Scott C. McKee, Assistant, for respondent.


PEARSON, J.

This case requires us to decide whether a criminal defendant effectively waives his rights to trial by jury and to counsel where, being fully aware of those rights, he proceeds through trial without an attorney and without a request for a jury. We hold that such inaction by a defendant, without an express waiver on the record, does not rise to the level of a knowing and intelligent waiver of these important constitutional...

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