Grace v. State

Fletcher, Justice.

This is a murder case in which the state is seeking the death penalty. We granted the accused’s application for interim review to consider a portion of the trial court’s pre-trial report. In that report, the trial judge expressed concern about the accused’s response to an inquiry put to him by the trial court pursuant to the Unified Appeal Procedure, particularly as to:

whether or not defendant waives objections to his counsel, and the manner in which his counsel is handling his defense when he has been instructed by his counsel to stand mute when the court affords him the…