Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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attention of the court. If the court finds that the petitioner is indigent, it shall allow petitioner to proceed in forma pauperis. If the court finds the indigent petitioner is incarcerated in the Indiana Department of Correction, and has requested representation, it shall order a copy of the petition sent to the Public Defender’s office. P-C.R. 1, § 2. Although Barclay was in prison and attached an affidavit of indigence to his petition, the court did not forward his petition to the Public Defender’s office as required by P-C.R. 1, § 2. The State recognizes that the court erred in this omission but asserts that it is harmless error. We disagree. There are two reasons behind the rule requiring Barclay’s petition for post-conviction relief to be for .1994), reh’g denied, trans. denied . Barclay properly filed with his petition an
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that a prior conviction in a georgia state court was appropriately used to qualify the defendant as a career offender because he failed to prove he did not knowingly and voluntarily waive his right to counsel
B. holding petitioner cannot claim he was denied right to assistance of counsel when he knowingly and voluntarily decided to represent himself
C. holding that defendant waived his right to selfrepresentation where he told the trial judge before trial that he did not want to represent himself and the public defender acted as counsel for the remainder of trial without objection
D. holding that a defendant in a state criminal trial has an independent constitutional right of selfrepresentation and that he may proceed to represent himself without counsel when he voluntarily and intelligently elects to do so
E. holding that when the defendant voluntarily and knowingly pleaded guilty he waived any claim that counsel was ineffective for failing to file a motion to suppress the defendants inculpatory statements
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.