Eddie L. Brooks v. Gary R. McCaughtry Warden

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Eddie Brooks was convicted in a Wisconsin state court of first-degree murder of a policeman, and related crimes, and was sentenced to life in prison plus 109 years. After exhausting his state remedies in State v. Brooks, 231 Wis.2d 373, 607 N.W.2d 290 (1999), he sought federal habe-as corpus, lost in the district court, and appeals, contending that the Wisconsin trial court deprived him of his federal constitutional right to represent himself. Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975). (His other contentions do not merit discussion.) To…