Swiger v. Brown

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Charles Swiger seeks review of a district court decision denying his petition for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Before the district court, Swiger claimed he was being held in state custody in violation of his federal constitutional rights because his state court conviction arose from a trial in which he exercised his Sixth (and Fourteenth) Amendment right to self-representation under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975), and because he failed to make a knowing and intelligent waiver of his right to appointed counsel. Applying the…