State v. Brooks

CLARK, Judge.

The indigent defendant moved “to represent himself as a jailhouse lawyer.” He was advised of his right to have counsel trained in the law to represent him but he filed a written waiver and insisted on proceeding pro se. He thereupon filed numerous, voluminous and repetitious pretrial motions, which account for about half of the 511-page record on appeal.

Defendant now assigns as error the trial court’s allowing him to represent himself and refusing to appoint standby counsel for him. This assignment of error is without merit. Defendant waived his right to appointed counsel and the…