PEOPLE v. LATIMER


220 A.D.2d 223 (1995)

632 N.Y.S.2d 12

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jimmie Latimer, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

October 3, 1995


There is no merit to defendant's claim that the trial court effectively denied his right to proceed pro se at his probation revocation hearing by coercing him into accepting counsel he did not want. The court's warnings to defendant that he who proceeded as his own counsel had a fool for a client, and that defendant would be strictly held to the rules of evidence, were proper attempts to make defendant aware of the dangers of representing himself, as were the other...

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