Williams v. the State

Boggs, Judge.

After a fundamentally flawed bench trial which began in the former Recorder’s Court of DeKalb County, Kevin Andre Williams was convicted of “driving without a drivers license,” assessed a substantial fine, and sentenced to jail and a lengthy term of probation. In the course of this trial, Williams was not adequately informed of the consequences of proceeding with a bench trial or of representing himself without an attorney, nor was he adequately informed of the charges against him — which changed mid-trial at the instigation of the prosecutor. Finally, despite all these errors on…