State ex rel. Snider v. Flynn

GRIMM, Presiding Judge.

Relator/defendant seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent respondent/judge from sentencing him in two matters. One is the revocation of probation, and the other is a trial. He contends that he was forced to represent himself in both matters in violation of his constitutional right to counsel. We issued a preliminary order in prohibition, which we now make absolute.

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The first of these two matters, a misdemeanor stealing charge, arose in 1993. A November 1993 docket entry states, “Defendant does not qualify for public defender as defendant is not emancipated.”

Apparently,…