When criminal defendants want to fire a court-appointed lawyer -- a lawyer that everyone else in the courtroom thinks is a good one -- they often end up carrying "their bad decisions all the way into the penitentiary," says one public defender. But in two recent cases, the 11th Circuit has reversed convictions of defendants who could not afford their own lawyer but fired the one provided by the state -- meaning they represented themselves at trial despite their indications they didn't want to do so.
September 04, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Sometimes a criminal defendant wants to fire his court-appointed lawyer, even a lawyer that everyone else in the courtroom thinks is a good one.
“Some people just are irrational about their case, and they make bad decisions,” said DeKalb County, Ga., public defender Lawrence L. Schneider. “They carry their bad decisions all the way into the penitentiary.”
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