Court Opinion

ID: 9852142
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:25:23.608634+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:23.117832
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ROSE, Justice,
specially concurring,
with whom McCLINTOCK, Justice, joins.
The majority opinion refers to the majority holding in Ash v. State, Wyo., 555 P.2d 221, 224, where we said, quoting from Leino v. United States, 10 Cir., 338 F.2d 154, 156:
“ ‘ * * * The right to counsel may not be used to play a “cat and mouse game with the court.” . . . ’ ”
I concur in the majority opinion with the observation that I see no similarity whatever between the facts of the instant matter and those revealed in Ash v. State. In Ash, the defendant was sent to trial against his wishes with an unprepared attorney. In this case, the defendant had an opportunity to be represented by counsel at every stage of the trial — which opportunity he purposely and methodically rejected in an apparent effort to infuse reversible error into the proceedings. I can and do continue to reject the majority opinion in Ash, supra, while willingly joining the majority opinion here.