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U.S. v. LILLIE

No. 91-30169.

989 F.2d 1054 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dean E. LILLIE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Cohan, Jennifer A. Greene, Cohan & Greene, Encinitas, CA, for defendant-appellant Dean E. Lillie.

Robert E. Lindsay, Alan Hechtkopf, Karen Quesnel, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for plaintiff-appellee U.S.

Before D.W. NELSON, REINHARDT and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:

We consider whether a criminal defendant is entitled to change retained counsel at the last minute before trial.

A. Dean Lillie was charged with tax evasion and conspiracy to obstruct the IRS. On the morning trial was to start, Lillie told the court he wanted to replace his appointed counsel, Emily Simon, with William A. Cohan, a lawyer retained by Lillie's family. Though Lillie didn't claim Simon was incompetent, he did...

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