Legal Opinion
United States v. Charles Stubbs
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 14, 2002No. 00-4342PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
McKEE, Circuit Judge.
Charles Stubbs appeals his conviction for robbery and related offenses based upon several claims of error including the legality of his warrantless arrest, and the adequacy of his purported waiver of trial counsel. Inasmuch as we agree that the waiver colloquy was not sufficient to insure a proper waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, we will reverse and remand for a new trial.
I. Background
On October 5, 1999, FBI agents received a tip from a confidential informant that Larry Brown and Walter Baynes were planning to rob a bank the next day.…
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