The indigent defendant was assigned counsel pursuant to article 18-B of the County Law, in what should have been a routine trial of an alleged sale of two vials of crack for $10 arising out of a "buy and bust" police operation. Almost from the moment the case was moved for trial, counsel deliberately began to engage the Trial Judge in acrimonious argument, with the two trading insults, often in front of the jury; the result being that the trial was conducted in an emotionally...
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