Can a defendant be deprived of effective assistance of counsel if he and his counsel are embroiled in irreconcilable conflict?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Rogers, 911 F.2d 740 (9th Cir. 1990):
A defendant may be deprived of effective assistance of counsel if he and his counsel are embroiled in irreconcilable conflict. Brown v. Craven, 424 F.2d 1166, 1169 (9th Cir.1970) (determining that defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel when he was "forced into a trial with the assistance of a particular lawyer with whom he was dissatisfied, with whom
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