76. The Right to Continuity of Counsel

The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

With the debate over the removal of Richard Allen's counsel in Delphi raging, we take a step back and look at the law. What has the Supreme Court said about right to counsel? The right to continuity of counsel? What does that mean? And does it matter if it's counsel you hired versus counsel appointed to you? We talk about it all.

Citations:

Anne Bowen Poulin, Strengthening the Criminal Defendant's Right to Counsel, 28 Cardozo L. Rev. 1213, 1249 (2006).

Keith Swisher, Disqualifying Defense Counsel: The Curse Of The Sixth Amendment

Wheat v. United States, 486 U.S. 153, 159 (1988).

Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered v. United States, 491 U.S. 617, 624 (1989).

United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U.S. 140, 144 (2006).

Morris v. Slappy, 461 U.S. 1, 13–14 (1983).

Daniels v. Lafler, 501 F.3d 735, 740 (6th Cir. 2007).