United States Ninth Circuit

Where defendant's appointed counsel implies that defendant is lying and defendant alleges counsel threatened to "sink" him at trial, the court must conduct a specific and targeted inquiry on whether the attorney-client relationship has broken down to merit substitution of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/05/2001
• Decided 09/26/2001
• Published 09/26/2001

Judges

• ILLSTON, District Judge:, Before:  Before:  HUG and B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and ILLSTON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Phillip A. Trevino, Law Offices of Phillip A. Trevino, Beverly Hills, California, for the defendant-appellant., John S. Gordon and Michael S. Lowe, Assistant United States Attorneys, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.