Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:
When a trial judge takes 60 seconds or so to obtain a valid jury waiver from a defendant in open court the issue we confront in this case does not arise.
We are called on to determine whether this defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his post-conviction claim that his constitutional right to a jury trial was violated. The trial court denied the defendant's petition, holding no evidentiary hearing...
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