United States Ninth Circuit

Criminal defendants do not have a Sixth Amendment right to choose appellate counsel.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/02/2001
• Decided 05/08/2001
• Published 05/08/2001

Judges

• TROTT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  DAVID R. THOMPSON, TROTT, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert H. Gombiner, Federal Public Defender, Tacoma, Washington, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Joseph Samson, Attorney General's Office, Olympia, Washington, for the respondent-appellee.