State v. Wolff

The principal issue in this certified appeal is whether the Appellate Court properly concluded that the defendant was entitled to a new trial because the trial court had failed to comply adequately with Practice Book § 961 (3)1 and, accordingly, that the *635defendant’s waiver of counsel was invalid. The defendant, Scott Brian Wolff, was convicted after a jury trial of two counts of assault of a peace officer in violation of General Statutes § 53a-167c (a) (l),2 and one count of breach of the peace in violation of General Statutes § 53a-181 (a) (5).3 He appealed from the judgment of conviction to…