Court Opinion

ID: 9455377
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:20:33.221772+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:34.695545
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KNOCH, Senior Circuit Judge
(dissenting) .
At the hearing on March 11, 1964, the Trial Judge made defendant’s right to counsel abundantly clear. There was an express and repeated waiver. The Court’s reminder on September 15, 1964, should have been sufficient to alert the defendant to his rights. I am inclined to believe that the majority’s emphasis on the defendant’s youth and inexperience is misplaced. Although only twenty years of age, the defendant did have some experience of the practical world and of making his own decisions. He frankly told the District Judge that he had left this jurisdiction and gone to Topeka, Kansas without seeking the advice or consent of the probation officer because he thought that the latter would not have approved of the job defendant had taken working in a bar. The colloquies as a whole between the Judge and the defendant must have satisfied the Trial Judge, as they do me, that defendant did make an intelligent waiver of counsel on both occasions. I would affirm.