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PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

No. S188619.

53 Cal.4th 519 (2012)

136 Cal. Rptr. 3d 54

267 P.3d 1125

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ANDREW D. JOHNSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

January 30, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry M. Karl , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan , Rene A. Chacon and David M. Baskind , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Michael J. Hersek , State Public Defender, Barry P. Helft , Chief Deputy State Public Defender, and Nina Rivkind , Deputy State Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Cliff Gardner and Lawrence A. Gibbs for San Francisco County Public Defender and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice as Amici Curiae.

OPINION

CHIN, J.—

Defendants in criminal cases have a federal constitutional right to represent themselves. (Faretta v. California (1975) 422 U.S. 806 [45 L.Ed.2d 562, 95 S.Ct. 2525] (Faretta).) In Indiana v. Edwards (2008) 554 U.S. 164 [171 L.Ed.2d 345, 128 S.Ct. 2379] (Edwards), however, the United States Supreme Court held that states may...

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