Court Opinion

ID: 9726937
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 13:13:34.886549+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:32.038951
License: Public Domain

HUNTER, Justice,
dissenting.
I must respectfully dissent from the majority opinion. For the reasons enunciated in Justice Prentice’s dissenting opinion, as well as the dissenting opinions in Russell v. State, (1978) Ind., 383 N.E.2d 309, the trial court erred in failing to hold a hearing on defendant’s request to represent himself at trial. The judgment of the trial court should be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial, where subsequent to a hearing, the trial court would determine whether defendant’s request should be granted in whole or part. See also, German v. State, (1978) 268 Ind. 67, 373 N.E.2d 880.
*1328I do not join, however, Justice Prentice’s approach to issue I; the majority correctly relied on Harris v. State, (1981) Ind., 427 N.E.2d 658, and Baker v. State, (1981) Ind., 425 N.E.2d 98, in its disposition of that issue. Likewise, I would join the majority’s disposition of the remaining issues to the extent that a reversal would not preempt the need to address those claims of error.
I dissent.