The US Supreme Court refused to consider if poor people have a constitutional right in a criminal prosecution to be represented by the same court-appointed attorney for the entirety of their case.
In an order Tuesday, the justices rejected an appeal from a Colorado man seeking a new trial after he was convicted of reckless driving and eluding an officer who tried to pull him over in 2017.
Williams Davis said he was forced to stand trial with a substitute attorney after the state trial court denied his original court-appointed lawyer’s requests to delay the proceedings to accommodate a scheduling ...
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