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FREEMAN v. PIERCE

No. 16-1229.

878 F.3d 580 (2017)

James FREEMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Guy PIERCE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 27, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Hicks, Jr. , C. Harker Rhodes, IV , Attorney, KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Brian McLeish , Attorney, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Criminal Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before Bauer, Manion, and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.

For over forty years, the Supreme Court has recognized that the Sixth Amendment implicitly entails a right to self-representation. Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 819, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975). When Petitioner James Freeman, charged in Illinois state court with kidnapping...

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