Luke Petruschke v. State of Florida

After the reversal of appellant’s conviction in Petruschke v. State, 125 So.3d 274 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013), appellant was convicted upon retrial. We reverse, because the trial court erred in not granting his unequivocal request to represent himself after the “complex, multi-faceted hearing” required in this area of the criminal law. Jones v. State, 658 So.2d 122, 126 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995) (Altenbernd, J., concurring).

Appellant told the court about his dissatisfaction with his lawyer. Prior to trial, appellant wrote letters to the trial judge claiming there was “an acute conflict of interest between…