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PEOPLE v. WELLS

6548/06 -41/07 - 15635, 15634, 15633

130 A.D.3d 457 (2015)

14 N.Y.S.3d 6

2015 NY Slip Op 05884

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CARL D. WELLS, Appellant.

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

Decided July 7, 2015.

Defendant's waiver of his right to counsel was invalid, since the court failed "to evaluate adequately defendant's competency to waive counsel, to warn him of the risks inherent in proceeding pro se and to apprise him of the importance of the lawyer in the adversarial system of adjudication," before granting his request to proceed pro se (People v Arroyo, 98 N.Y.2d 101, 104 [2002] [internal quotation marks omitted]). In the...

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