What is the test for asserting a right to self-representation?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Faultry, A122829, No. 199476 (Cal. App. 2011):
We are presented in this appeal with the issue of timeliness.7 "[T]he timeliness of one's assertion of Faretta rights is critical." (People v. Halvorsen (2007) 42 Cal.4th 379, 433.) "If a request for self-representation is unequivocally asserted within a reasonable
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