Does the Attorney General have any authority or authority to argue that a defendant's attorney is incompetent?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Diaz, G052142 (Cal. App. 2016):

Further, defendant fails to cite any legal authority supporting this ground. As the Attorney General notes, in the context of a Marsden hearing (People v. Marsden (1970) 2 Cal.3d 118), courts have held "'the number of times one sees his attorney, and the way in which one relates with his attorney, does not sufficiently establish incompetence.'" (People v. Streeter (2012) 54 Cal.4th 205, 230; People v. Silva (1988) 45 Cal.3d 604, 622 [defendant's attorney "had only seen him once"].)

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