Does the court have any authority to substitute retained counsel for a defendant's own counsel?

courts, summoning 80 jurors, private citizens to be out in the hallway, and being sworn, and then ask for a continuance and a substitution?" Moreover, defendant did not express any dissatisfaction with his appointed counsel and his sudden request to substitute retained counsel appeared arbitrary. Contrary to defendant's argument, the record indicates the court balanced defendant's right to counsel of his choice with the state's interest in efficient judicial administration.⁷ (See People v. Keshishian (2008) 162 Cal.App.4th 425, 428 [fair opportunity to secure counsel of choice is necessarily limited by the countervailing state interest in proceeding with prosecutions on an orderly and expeditious basis, " ' "taking into account the practical difficulties of 'assembling the witnesses, lawyers, and jurors at the same place at the same time' " ' "].)