Burnette v. Terrell

How courts have described this case

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• granting declaratory relief to prevent future interference by a trial judge with the public defender’s authority to hire and manage his staff
• “The principle that a judge has the discretion to remove defense counsel *** is not in dispute.”
• “a dispute between two public officials over the scope of the authority granted to each by constitution and statute” was reviewed de novo
• trial judge’s assignment of specific cases to specific assistant public defenders “usurp [ed] the statutory authority of the public defender to hire and manage his staff’
• “[W]e choose to resolve the controversy by exercising this court’s supervisory authority in the form of a supervisory order.”
• “The principle that a judge has the discretion to remove defense counsel *** is not in dispute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).