Cook v. State

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

After a bench trial, Cindi Cardie Cook was convicted of a parental notification law violation and interference with custody. Her amended motion for new trial was denied, and she appeals, asserting that she did not make a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent waiver of her right to counsel or her right to a jury trial. Because the State failed to meet its burden of proving that Cook knowingly and intelligently waived her right to counsel, we reverse.

Here, the record of pretrial and trial proceedings below is almost nonexistent. The only transcript, with a cover sheet…