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WILLIAMS v. BARTLETT

No. 548, Docket 94-2082.

44 F.3d 95 (1994)

Jerome WILLIAMS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. George BARTLETT, Respondent-Appellee, Howard R. Relin, Monroe County District Attorney, Intervenor-Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark B. Gombiner and the Legal Aid Soc., Federal Defender Div., Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for petitioner-appellant.

Loretta S. Courtney, Monroe County, Rochester, NY, Asst. Dist. Atty. (Howard R. Relin, Dist. Atty., Monroe County, of counsel), for respondent-appellee and intervenor-respondent-appellee.

Before: OAKES, JACOBS and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Jerome Williams seeks a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated when the New York State Supreme Court denied his application to represent himself in his trial for criminal possession of a controlled substance. The trial judge denied the application on the invalid grounds that Williams's lack of schooling and training would disserve his defense and that...

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