State v. Crafts

DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

In the Superior Court, Kennebec County, Charles Crafts was convicted by jury of burglary, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 401, a class B crime, and of criminal attempt to commit theft, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 152, a class E crime. On appeal from the ensuing judgments, Crafts alleges reversible error in the Superior Court’s denial of his trial counsel’s motion to withdraw, which in effect deprived him, so he claims, of the exercise of his statutory and constitutional right of self-representation. We disagree. There was no error below and we affirm the judgments.

The appellant was…