State v. Michael

WELLS, Judge.

Defendant assigns three errors to the trial court, the principal assignment being whether defendant’s waiver of counsel was a knowing and intelligent waiver of his constitutional right to counsel. Because we must order a new trial for the court’s failure to follow the mandates of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1242 (1983) and as the other alleged errors would not likely recur at retrial, we will only discuss the principal assignment of error.

It is hornbook law that the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment…