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DEFENDANT’S REQUEST TO REPLACE OR DISMISS HIS STANDBY COUNSEL PROPERLY DENIED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department determined Supreme Court properly denied defendant’s request to replace or dismiss defendant’s standby attorney:

After permitting defendant to represent himself at trial, the court providently exercised its discretion in declining to replace or dismiss defendant’s standby counsel. Initially, to the extent defendant sought to proceed with no standby counsel at all, that request was properly denied. That option would have risked a mistrial in the event termination of defendant’s pro se status became necessary, and this was of particular concern because defendant had a history of disrupting the proceedings … . Defendant was under no obligation to solicit or accept any advice from his standby counsel.

Furthermore, there was no good cause for replacement of defendant’s standby counsel, who was defendant’s third assigned attorney, with yet another attorney … . While the record sometimes shows contentious exchanges between defendant and this attorney, the record also shows that he consulted with him, as a legal advisor, on other occasions. There was no irreconcilable conflict amounting to good cause for substitution… , nor does any disagreement over trial strategy … . The attorney’s negative comments about defendant, quoted in a newspaper article, should have been avoided, but they were made well before trial, and did not prejudice defendant or amount to an irreconcilable conflict. People v Findley, 2018 NY Slip Op 02545, First Dept 4-12-18

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