STATE v. MICHAEL

No. 8418SC745.

327 S.E.2d 263 (1985)

STATE of North Carolina v. Danny Preston MICHAEL.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 2, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. John R.B. Matthis and Asst. Atty. Gen. James C. Gulick, Raleigh, for the State.

Appellate Defender Adam Stein by Asst. Appellate Defender David W. Dorey, Raleigh, for defendant.


WELLS, Judge.

Defendant assigns three errors to the trial court, the principal assignment being whether defendant's waiver of counsel was a knowing and intelligent waiver of his constitutional right to counsel. Because we must order a new trial for the court's failure to follow the mandates of N.C.Gen. Stat. § 15A-1242 (1983) and as the other alleged errors would not likely recur at retrial, we will only discuss the principal assignment of error.

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