Is a lack of confidence in an attorney sufficient to compel a defendant to substitute counsel?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Brown, B254939 (Cal. App. 2015):

irreconcilable conflict. (People v. Vines, supra, 51 Cal.4th. at p. 878.) Appellant's subjective lack of confidence in his attorney was insufficient to require substitute counsel. "'"[I]f a defendant's claimed lack of trust in . . . an appointed attorney were sufficient to compel appointment [or] substitut[ion of] counsel, defendants effectively would have a veto power over any appointment and by process of elimination could obtain appointment of their preferred attorneys, which is certainly not the law."'" (People v. Memro (1995) 11 Cal.4th 786, 857.)

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