Brewer v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Carl M. Brewer appeals the superior court's decision to revoke his probation. Brewer's main contention is that the superior court improperly denied his request to represent himself at the revocation hearing and forced him to proceed with a public defender whom he did not want and who was unprepared to defend him. But Superior Court Judge Donald D. Hopwood concluded that Brewer's eleventh-hour request for self-representation was a sham, a tactic aimed at delaying the adjudication.

In Gottschalk v. State1, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that a trial judge can deny a…