State v. Corver

After completing its overview of those charges, the court asked the defendant whether he was electing a trial by jury or a court trial. The defendant stated in relevant part: "I would like some time to decide this.... Everybody wants to do everything in five minutes. You wait a year and a half, and nobody wants to do anything, even with discovery or anything else, and now in five minutes ... you want to do all this." The court then advised the defendant that it had no preference as to how the defendant elected to proceed, as it would not be presiding over the defendant's trial. Rather, the…