Jervis v. State

BASKIN, Judge.

Defendant Donald Jervis represented himself in a non-jury trial. He was convicted of unlawful possession of a short-barreled rifle and received a sentence of 90 days in the Dade County Jail as a condition of a three-year term of probation. We reverse.

The record reflects that the trial court failed to conduct an adequate inquiry prior to accepting defendant Jervis’s waiver of counsel. Felton v. State, 438 So.2d 1049 (Fla.3d DCA 1983). As a result, we are unable to conclude that Jervis’s relinquishment of his right to counsel was knowing and intelligent. Faretta v. California, 422…