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facts relating to defendant’s Faretta motion.”].)

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.

1 First Request for Self-Representation Is Granted Defendant and several codefendants were indicted by the Solano County grand jury on 17 counts. Defendant ultimately faced four counts (original counts 3, 5, 6, and 13)2 of forgery (§ 470, subd. (a)), two counts (original counts 4 and 7) of filing a forged instrument (§ 115, subd. (a)), and one count (original count 14) of grand theft (§§ 484, 487, subd. (a)). On September 29, 2009, defendant and his codefendants appeared before Judge Stashyn for a Faretta hearing. Defendant had completed a written waiver of his right to counsel and asked to represent himself. On questioning and advisement by the court about waiving counsel and the perils of self-representation, defendant spoke of “overstanding” (rather than understanding) the court’s admonishments. This led to an exchange with the court in which defendant stated the term “understand” was “copy written.” The court reprimanded defendant for playing word games. Defendant also made other peculiar statements: he claimed the “Universal” Commercial Code…