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STATE v. STALLINGS

No. S-1-SC-36843.

476 P.3d 905 (2020)

2020-NMSC-019

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rick STALLINGS, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Filing Date: August 27, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett J. Baur , Chief Public Defender, William A. O'Connell , Assistant Appellate Defender, Santa Fe, NM, for Appellant.

Hector H. Balderas , Attorney General, Lauren Joseph Wolongevicz , Assistant Attorney General, Emily C. Tyson-Jorgenson , Assistant Attorney General, for Appellee.

OPINION

{1} The right to self-representation must be respected when it is clearly invoked. This case requires us to decide whether the right is clearly invoked when a defendant rejects appointed counsel and seeks to represent himself as a second choice, if substitute counsel cannot be appointed.

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