How have courts interpreted the "right to assistance of counsel and the correlative right to dispense with the lawyer's help"?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Lopez, G042168, No. 02CF1819 (Cal. App. 2010):
4. "[T]he procedural safeguards of the Bill of Rights are not to be treated as mechanical rigidities. What were contrived as protections for the accused should not be turned into fetters." (Adams v. United States (1942) 317 U.S. 269, 279 [discussing "right to assistance of counsel and the correlative right to dispense with a lawyer's help"].)
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