The California Supreme Court today decided an issue on the constitutional right to be a fool created in Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975). See id., at 852 (Blackmun, J., dissenting). In today's case of People v. Butler, S068230 , Justice Chin wrote:

The question before us is whether the Sixth Amendment requires the trial court to allow a defendant who has already killed a jail inmate (and clearly intends more jail violence) to represent himself, with the obvious danger to jail inmates and staff and other difficulties inherent in such self-representation. The majority holds that the trial court violated defendant's Sixth Amendment right to represent himself when it revoked his self-representation status shortly before trial. (See Faretta v. California (1975) 422 U.S. 806 (Faretta).) In my view, the trial court properly refused to let defendant represent himself under the extreme circumstances the case presents.

The bad news is that is the dissent.