Jerome Williams v. George Bartlett, Howard R. Relin, Monroe County District Attorney, Intervenor-Respondent-Appellee

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Jerome Williams seeks a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated when the New York State Supreme Court denied his application to represent himself in his trial for criminal possession of a controlled substance. The trial judge denied the application on the invalid grounds that Williams’s lack of schooling and training would disserve his defense and that the proceedings, then three months away from trial, were too far advanced to allow the discharge of assigned counsel. The Appellate .Division affirmed on the cognizable…