Young v. State

FARMER, Judge.

In understandable frustration with the defendant’s refusal to accept the services of his third appointed counsel to represent defendant at his first-degree murder trial, the trial judge refused a new appointment of counsel and also refused an eleventh-hour continuance of the already much delayed trial, thereby requiring defendant to represent himself with only a “stand-by” lawyer to advise him. Unfortunately, and despite the prosecution’s suggestion to do so, the judge failed to conduct a Faretta hearing. See Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562…