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Counsel’s Expressed Objections to His Client’s Motion to Withdraw His Guilty Plea Required the Assignment of New Counsel

The Second Department determined defendant should have been assigned a different attorney after his attorney expressed objections to the defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea:

Assigned counsel expressed his opinion that the defendant should “maintain his plea” and informed the court that he didn’t “feel that [he] could represent [the defendant] at any further proceedings.” The defendant’s right to counsel was adversely affected when his attorney took a position adverse to the defendant’s with respect to that branch of the defendant’s motion which was to withdraw his plea of guilty to attempted use of a child in a sexual performance … . The County Court should have assigned a different attorney to represent the defendant before it determined that branch of the defendant’s motion… . People v Duart, 2014 NY Slip Op 00373, 2nd Dept 1-22-14

 

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