What is the difference between a motion for a continuance and a motion to obtain retained counsel?

This case is thus distinguishable from People v. Jeffers (1987) 188 Cal.App.3d 840, 850, 233 Cal.Rptr. 692 ( Jeffers ), on which the People rely, in which this court affirmed a denial of a continuance in order to obtain retained counsel where "[n]othing in the record suggest[ed] [defendant] made a good faith, diligent effort to obtain retained counsel before the scheduled trial date." ( Id. at p. 850, 233 Cal.Rptr. 692.) Unlike in Jeffers , as described above, in this case, the defendant, through his mother, did make good faith, diligent efforts to obtain retained counsel more than a month

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prior to trial, and in fact retained new counsel six days prior to the trial.