Charles McGill v. United States of America, Walter M. Hinton v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “The sport of syntax should not be indulged when trial counsel did not make timely objection except in a clear case of prejudice”
• no abuse of discretion to deny continuance to replace appointed counsel with retained counsel where request made four days before trial and defendant failed to indicate he had retained competent counsel to represent him, despite six month opportunity to do so
• no abuse of discretion to deny continuance to replace appointed counsel with retained counsel where request made four days before trial and defendant failed to indicate he had retained competent counsel to represent him, despite six month opportunity to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).