What is the current state of the law on waiver of trial?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Powell v. Hocker, 453 F.2d 652 (9th Cir. 1971):
"Waiving trial entails the inherent risk that the good-faith evaluations of a reasonably competent attorney will turn out to be mistaken either as to the facts or as to what a court's judgment might be on given facts." McMann v. Richardson, 397 U.S. at 770, 90 S.Ct. at 1448.
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