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McKaskle V. Wiggins
''McKaskle v. Wiggins'', 465 U.S. 168 (1984), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court considered the role of standby counsel in a criminal trial where the defendant conducted his own defense (''pro se''). In this case the defendant claimed his Sixth Amendment right to present his own case in a criminal trial was violated by the presence of a court-appointed standby counsel.. Circumstances Carl Edwin Wiggins was on trial for robbery and chose to proceed ''pro se'' and was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. The conviction was overturned on the technicality, that the indictment was defective and Wiggins requested counsel for the second trial. The trial court appointed standby counsel to assist him if requested. Wiggins decided to defend himself and asked that the standby counsel be barred from interfering. Multiple times, both before and during the trial, Wiggins changed his mind regarding the standby counsel's role. Wiggins sometimes allowed or ev ...
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Standby Counsel
Standby counsel or advisory counsel refers to a lawyer who assists a client who has invoked their right to Pro se legal representation in the United States, self-representation. If the client becomes disruptive or otherwise unable to conduct his own defense, the judge may order the standby counsel to take over the defense. Standby counsel also remains available during the trial for consultation. Standby counsel was ruled to be not a violation of the defendant right to self-representation in ''McKaskle v. Wiggins'', 465 U.S. 168 (1984). Jack Kevorkian had standby counsel in his fifth trial. References

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