Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Brooks, W.

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• defining abuse of discretion as “a manifestly unreasonable judgment, a result of prejudice, bias or ill-will, or a misapplication of law.”
• trial judge noted on record at time of continuance request that defendant’s appointed trial counsel had “obtained a lot of evidence, a lot of discovery and had prepared for trial”

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