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STATE v. GOODWIN

No. COA18-1157.

833 S.E.2d 379 (2019)

STATE of North Carolina, v. Stevie GOODWIN, Jr., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed: September 17, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Joshua H. Stein , by Assistant Attorney General T. Hill Davis, III , for the State.

Unti & Smith, PLLC, by Sharon L. Smith , for defendant-appellant.

Where an indigent defendant requests a change of counsel from a court-appointed attorney to a private attorney during a pre-trial hearing, a trial court commits structural error when it makes its decision based solely on the effective assistance of the appointed attorney. Here, the trial court committed a structural error when it...

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