Legal Opinion
John Kenneth Henderson v. Frederick Frank, Superintendent Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General John K. Henderson
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 6, 1998No. 97-3041PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.
Facing criminal charges at a preliminary hearing before a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania district justice, John K. Henderson signed and filed a standard waiver of counsel form. He then petitioned the state court to allow him to proceed pro se, which was allowed without a recorded colloquy between Henderson and the judge regarding the dangers of self-representation. Henderson was not represented by counsel at a subsequent pretrial hearing where he unsuccessfully moved to suppress his confession. He was represented by counsel at his trial, where a jury…
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