State v. Currier

NICHOLS, Justice.

This appeal presents the uncommon issue of the right of an accused to represent himself in a criminal trial.

The Defendant, Raymond Currier, appeared pro se in a jury-waived trial on October 31, 1978, in Superior Court in Franklin County in which he was found guilty of intentionally negotiating a worthless instrument, 17-A. M.R.S.A. § 708(1). The incident occurred one evening during the previous June at the Defendant’s home at Wilton, Maine, where he carried on a business known as Currier Custom Firearms. Involved was a check in the amount of $95, which, in the presence of a…