United States of America Ex Rel. Clifford Smith v. M. J. Pavich, Supervisor, Peoria Work Release Center, and the Illinois Attorney General

SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

When a defendant is accorded his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments’ right to self-representation, may he thereafter complain that the quality of his own defense amounted to a denial of “effective assistance of counsel?”

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The defendant 1 was indicted by an Illinois grand jury on July 13, 1973, for intimidation in violation of Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 38, § 12-6, and for communicating with a witness in violation of Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 38, § 32 — 4, by reason of having threatened to kill Joseph Scherff should he testify against the defendant in another pending criminal case. This…